Immanuel Kant

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

Immanuel Kant

The true religion is to be posited not in the knowledge or confession of what God allegedly does or has done for our salvation, but in what we must do to become worthy of this.

Immanuel Kant

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Immanuel Kant

The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such a faculty can be found only in rational beings.

Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

Immanuel Kant

Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one’s means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor talent.

Immanuel Kant

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

Immanuel Kant

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

Immanuel Kant

Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

Immanuel Kant