Quotes from Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of reality.

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

Great minds think for themselves.

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Do the right thing because it is right.

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.

Honesty is better than any policy.

Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.