Immanuel Kant

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Immanuel Kant

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

Immanuel Kant

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

Immanuel Kant

It is through education that all the good in the world arises.

Immanuel Kant

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

Immanuel Kant

Man’s greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.

Immanuel Kant

Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.

Immanuel Kant

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Immanuel Kant

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

Immanuel Kant

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

Immanuel Kant