Immanuel Kant

A person born blind cannot frame the smallest conception of darkness, because he has none of light. The savage knows nothing of poverty, because he does not know wealth and the ignorant has no conception of his ignorance, because he has none of knowledge.

Immanuel Kant

A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.

Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.

Immanuel Kant

Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

Immanuel Kant

Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

All perception is colored by emotion.

Immanuel Kant

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Immanuel Kant

Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Immanuel Kant

Conscience is an instinct to pass judgment upon ourselves in accordance with moral laws.

Immanuel Kant