Immanuel Kant Doe Quotations

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray.

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

The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.

All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.

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

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal.

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever way he sees fit, so long as he does not infringe upon the freedom of others to pursue a similar end which can be reconciled with the freedom of everyone else within a workable general law ? i.e. he must accord to others the same right as he enjoys himself.