Immanuel Kant Quotes - Page 2

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

If we 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.

Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

The touchstone of everything that can be concluded as a law for a people lies in the question whether the people could have imposed such a law on itself.

if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more indignant about his fate than despondent or dejected, wishes for death and yet preserves his life without loving it, not from inclination or fear but from duty, then his maxim has moral content.