Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.


But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.


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.'


Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.


It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.


May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.


Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.


Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.


Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.


Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.