“If we were to suppose that mankind never can or will be in a better condition, it seems impossible to justify by any kind of theodicy the mere fact that such a race of corrupt beings could have been created on earth at all.”
Immanuel Kant“Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.”
Immanuel Kant“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
Immanuel Kant“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
Immanuel Kant“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Immanuel Kant“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
Immanuel Kant“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
Immanuel Kant“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
Immanuel Kant“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Immanuel Kant“To be is to do.”
Immanuel Kant“Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'”
Immanuel Kant