Immanuel Kant
10 quotes
“Rules and formulas, those mechanical aids to the use of reason, are the shackles of a permanent immaturity. What is Enlightenment? (1784)”
“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life”
“Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-incurred immaturity. What is Enlightenment? (1784)”
“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. Critique of Practical Reason (1788)”
“Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law”
“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. Critique of Pure Reason (1781)”
“Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)”
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play”
“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. Critique of Practical Reason (1788), Conclusion”
“Have the courage to use your own reason”