Immanuel Kant Quotes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

Truth (satya) is positive, nonviolence is negative.

I have never obtained any ethical values from my scientific work.

We care about moral issues, nobility, decency, happiness, goodness—the issues that matter in the real world, but which can only be addressed, in their purity, in fiction.

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

One of the great tragedies of mankind is that morality has been hijacked by religion.

All good moral philosophy is ... but the handmaid to religion.

The order of nature [is] that individual happiness shall be inseparable from the practice of virtue.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

There is a moral law in this world which has its application both to individuals and organized bodies of men. You cannot go on violating these laws in the name of your nation, yet enjoy their advantage as individuals. We may forget truth for our conv

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

But the nature of the universe is such that ends can never justify means. On the contrary, the means always determine the end.

Virtue is despotic; life, reputation, every earthly good, must be surrendered at her voice. The law may seem hard, but it is the guardian of what it commands; and is the only sure defence of happiness.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

One of them is knowing the difference between Morality and Wisdom. Morality is temporary, Wisdom is permanent… Ho ho. Take that one to bed with you tonight.

There is nothing divine about morality, it is a purely human affair.

Virture offers the only path in this life that leads to tranquility.

If a man has no humaneness what can his propriety be like? If a man has no humaneness what can his happiness be like?

Any religion or philosophy which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philosophy.

Ethics, decency and morality are the real soldiers

Morality or duty never yet made a man happy in himself or dear to others.