I leave you the best Kant phrases (1724-1804), Prussian-born philosopher, considered one of the great thinkers of philosophy, precursor of German idealism and representative of criticism.
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-Live your life as if each of your actions will become universal law.
-God's will is not simply that we be happy, but that we make ourselves happy.
-If man makes himself a worm, he should not complain when he is trampled on.
-Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
-A man is guilty before the law when he violates the rights of another, in ethics he is guilty just for thinking about doing it.
-I had to eliminate knowledge to make room for belief.
-To be is to do.
-Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual game.
-Look closely, the beautiful can be small.
-Have the courage to use your own reason. That is the motto of enlightenment.
-Man must be disciplined, as he is by nature raw and wild.
-Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the best minds of centuries past..
-The rules for happiness: something to do, something to love, something to look forward to.
-We are not millionaires because of what we have, but because of what we can do without having any material resources.
-The opinion that others may have about your merit and judgment is a motivation of great weight that has taken away many sacrifices in the long term..
-Science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life.
-There is no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
-Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concept are blind.
-Morality is not the doctrine of how we make ourselves happy, but about how we make ourselves worthy of happiness..
-All the interests of my reason, speculative and practical, are combined in the following three questions: What can I know? What should I do? What can i expect?
-You don't have to live happily as long as you live, but you do need to do so honorably.
-He who is mean to animals also becomes rude in his dealings with men. We can judge a man's heart by his treatment of animals.
-Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling for humanity, forgetting the Greeks who said: bad is war that begets more evil than it eliminates.
-Immaturity is the inability to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
-Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouses, strewn with many philosophical ruins.
-The busier we are, the more acutely we feel what we live, the more conscious we are of life.
-The death of dogma is the birth of morality.
-Space and time are the framework within which the mind is pressured to build its experience of reality..
-Genius is the ability to independently understand and arrive at concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
-Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-induced immaturity.
-All our knowledge begins with the senses, then proceeds with understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
-Out of the crooked wood of mankind, no straight thing has been made.
-The step to being competent is considered very dangerous by the greatest portion of humanity..
-Be patient for a while, slander is short lived. The truth is the daughter of time, it will soon appear to vindicate you.
-The new prejudices will serve as well as the old ones to imprison the great unthinking masses..
-Dare to know!
-There is something splendid about innocence, but it cannot be protected very well and is easily seduced..
-In all judgments in which we describe something as beautiful, we do not allow anyone to have another opinion.
-An action, to have moral value, must have been done from duty.
-Without man and his potential for moral progress, all of reality would be a mere desert, a thing in vain, with no final purpose..
-Because of a lie, a man is capable of annihilating his own dignity.
-It is pure hypocrisy that there is a law to be hated or even despised, who then, continue to do good even knowing that they are at a disadvantage?
-The range within which we can use the power of knowledge according to our principles is the range within which the concepts at first have application..
-Freedom determines nothing with respect to our theoretical knowledge of nature, just as the concept of nature determines nothing with respect to the practical laws of freedom..
-When we speak in terms of interest, what we call "like" is everything that we connect with the importance of the existence of an object.
-It is always nice to remember that everything we conceptualize is capable of being realized through reason..
-Religion always translates into the recognition of all our duties and obligations through divine scriptures.
-Ingratitude is typical of evil in the world.
-You must always act in a way whereby your principle can become a safe law for the rest of the world..
-A peace treaty that has been adjusted and negotiated with the mental reserve of certain motives capable of provoking the future or the start of another war should never be considered valid..
-Don't try to search the crowd for certain kinds of favors. You rarely get information by honest and legal means. I recommend you always look at the testimony of a few: never count the voices, just take care to see how valuable they are in weight.
-All knowledge must, directly or indirectly, through certain representations, ultimately relate to us, to sensitivity, because in no other way can meaning be given to us.
-Behave in such a way that you treat humanity in a particular way. Never treat people as if they were a means to an end, on the contrary, always treat people at the same time as if this were the ultimate end.
-At some point, I had to deny knowledge to allow a space for faith.
-The varied feelings of enjoyment or anger do not prove the nature of the external things that arouse them, but they prove how the own disposition of each person can be easily transferred from pleasure to pain.
-The sublime must always be extraordinary and the beautiful can be small. But what must be clear is that the sublime must be simple, as opposed to the beautiful, which can be constantly adorned and redecorated..
-Courage is glorious and great, wit is always little, but remains beautiful.
-The image of people who convince by their physical appearance, sometimes falls on other types of feelings.
-In the everyday life of mankind, respectable qualities of praise never meet with concurrent variations; the maximum imperfection seems that seldom tends to be nuanced.
-People who have a good heart, will go peacefully and educated for a complacency in the world. These types of individuals will always feel a sincere compassion for the misery of others..
-Women always have a strong feeling about everything that is precious, distinguished and decorated..
-In itself, beauty is astonishing and moving, or it is smiling and charming.
-Naturally, people adhere more to doctrines that demand the least self-effort and the least use of their own reason, and consequently, that they can better accommodate their duties to their inclinations..
-Simply turning a blind eye to distrust can never be enough to overcome the restlessness of reason..
-When the trembling glow of a summer night is filled with blazing stars and the moon itself is complete, I slowly feel drawn into a state of enhanced sensitivity made of friendship and disdain for the world and eternity..
-Laughter is an effect from the sudden transformation of a high expectation into nothing.
-The illustration is the departure of the minority of the man himself.
-Anarchy is law and independence without force. Despotism is law and impulse without freedom. Force is cruelty without freedom and law. Republicanism is an impulse with independence and law.
-The woman yearns for the self-control of the man.
-Only a few have followed a fixed path and managed to escape immaturity through their own cultivation of thought..
-Nothing can be imagined in the world, or even outside of it. Really, what can be considered good and unqualified, is always tied to a good will.
-Insufficiency in sanity is properly what is called stupidity; and for such failure, we do not know any remedy.
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