I leave you the best phrases of Kant (1724-1804), a philosopher born in Prussia, 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 were to become universal law.
-The will of God is not simply that we be happy, but that we make ourselves happy.
-If man makes himself a worm, he should not complain when trampled.
-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 simple intellectual game.
-Look closely, the beautiful can be small.
-Have the courage to use your own reason. That is the motto of enlightenment.
-The man must be disciplined, since he is by nature raw and wild.
-Reading all the good books is like a conversation with the best minds of the past centuries.
-The rules for happiness: something to do, something to love, something to hope for.
-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
-It is not necessary that you live happily while you live, but you do need to do so honorably.
-He who is bad with 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 used to say: bad is war that generates 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 coastlines or lighthouses, strewn with many philosophical ruins.
-The busier we are, the more acutely we feel what we live, we are more aware 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.
-Of the crooked wood of humanity, no straight thing has been made.
-The step to be competent is considered very dangerous by the greatest portion of humanity.
-Be patient for a while, slander does not live long. 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 capture the great non-thinking masses.
-Dare to know!
-There is something splendid in innocence, but it cannot be protected very well and it is easily seduced.
-In all the 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 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 initially have application.
-Freedom does not determine anything with respect to our theoretical knowledge of nature, just as the concept of nature does not determine anything with respect to the practical laws of freedom.
-When we speak in terms of interest, what we call "I like" is everything that we connect with the importance of the existence of an object.
-It is always nice to remember that everything that 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 by which 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.
-In some opportunity, I had to deny the knowledge to allow to have a space for faith.
-The varied feelings of enjoyment or anger do not prove the nature of the external things that awaken them, but they prove how the own disposition of each person can easily be transferred from pleasure to pain.
-The sublime must always be extraordinary and the beautiful can be small. But what should be clear is that the sublime must be simple, as opposed to the beautiful, which can be constantly adorned and redecorated.
-The courage is glorious and great, the wit is always little, but it remains beautiful.
-The image of people who convince by their physical appearance, sometimes falls on other types of feelings.
-In the daily life of humanity, the respectable qualities of praise are never found with concurrent variations; the maximum imperfection seems that seldom tends to be qualified.
-The people who have a good heart, will go in a peaceful and educated way for a complacency in the world. These types of individuals will always feel 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 require 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 uneasiness 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 resulting 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 impulse with independence and law.
-The woman yearns for the self-control of the man.
-Only a few have followed a fixed path and have managed to flee from 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 good will.
- The insufficiency in the good sense is properly what is called stupidity; and for such failure, we do not know any remedy.