Immanuel Kant Quotes

Thou shalt likewise know that according to Law, the nature of this universe is in all things a like.

Yet nature cannot be contravened, but preserves a fixed and immutable order.

Law rules throughout existence, a Law which is not intelligent, but Intelligence.

Nature has not got two voices, you know, one of them condemning all day what the other commands.

The best-regulated home is always that in which the discipline is the most perfect, and yet where it is the least felt. Moral discipline acts with the force of a law of nature.

Nature is very constant and conformable with herself.

I do not want to give you artificial and systematic laws, invented by man; only to bring you back under the unique laws of nature and order, which command to the heart and do not tyrannize the free will.

To the laws all men show respect and deference, as without them peace and harmony would be supplanted by anarchy and terror; human laws being instituted for the express purpose of regulating our interests as individuals and nations, between man and man; and divine laws given of heaven, prescribing rules on spiritual concerns, for faith and worship

There is but one law for all … the law of nature.

Nature is seldom in the wrong, custom always.

Everything in nature goes by law, and not by luck.

.... we are a part of nature as a whole, whose order we follow.

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Not in opinion but in nature is law founded.

In the order of nature we may behold the ways of the Eternal.

We must proceed with a full realization that no statute enacted by man can repeal the inexorable laws of nature.

Law, in its most general and comprehensive sense, signifies a rule of action; and is applied indiscriminately to all kinds of action, whether animate, or inanimate, rational or irrational. Thus we say, the laws of motion, of gravitation, of optics, or mechanics, as well as the laws of nature and of nations. And it is that rule of action, which is prescribed by some superior, and which the inferior is bound to obey.

Nature hath no goal though she hath law.

The laws of Nature, that is to say the laws of God, plainly made every human being a law unto himself, we must steadfastly refuse to obey those laws, and we must as steadfastly stand by the conventions which ignore them, since the statutes furnish us peace, fairly good government, and stability, and therefore are better for us than the laws of God, which would soon plunge us into confusion and disorder and anarchy if we should adopt them.

The first and fundamental law of Nature, which is, to seek peace and follow it.

The same law that shapes the earth-star shapes the snow-star. As surely as the petals of a flower are fixed, each of these countless snow-stars comes whirling to earth...these glorious spangles, the sweeping of heaven's floor.

Everything in nature is the result of fixed laws.

Nature is constrained by the cause of her laws which dwell inborn in her. Variant: Nature is constrained by the order of her own law which lives and works within her.

See we not plainly that obedience of creatures unto the law of nature is the stay of the whole world?

Knowledge of those unalterable Relations which Providence has ordained that every thing should bear to every other...To these we should conform in good Earnest; and not think to force Nature, and the whole Order of her System, by a Compliance with our Pride, and Folly, to conform to our artificial Regulations.