Immanuel Kant
Each according to his own way of seeing things, seek one goal, that is gratification.Collection: Goal
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.Collection: Freedom
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happyCollection: Happiness
God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.Collection: Freedom
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.Collection: Procrastination
If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.Collection: Selfishness
Reason can never prove the existence of God.Collection: Atheism
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.Collection: Men
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed anyCollection: Philosophy
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.Collection: Taken
Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beingsCollection: Happiness
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.Collection: Knowledge
Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.Collection: Respect
Maximum individuality within maximum communityCollection: Community
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.Collection: Life
The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.Collection: Power
Art is purposiveness without purpose.Collection: Art
Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].Collection: Mean
After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity.Collection: Spiritual
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.Collection: Determination
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.Collection: Nice
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.Collection: Death
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.Collection: Law
Great minds think for themselves.Collection: Intelligence