True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

— Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant Quotes

Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.

— Immanuel Kant

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together.

— Immanuel Kant

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

— Immanuel Kant
Carpe Diem

All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

— Immanuel Kant
Real

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend – and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him.

— Immanuel Kant

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

— Immanuel Kant

Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.

— Immanuel Kant

There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

— Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

— Immanuel Kant

Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man.

— Immanuel Kant

No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.

— Immanuel Kant

He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray.

— Immanuel Kant

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

— Immanuel Kant

Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard.

— Immanuel Kant

Ich solle niemals anders verfahren, als so, dass ich auch wollen k o« nne, meine Maxime solle ein allgemeines Gesetz werden. I ought never to act except in such a way that I can also will that my maxim should become a universal law.

— Immanuel Kant
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