Immanuel Kant
Critique of Pure Reason
Early Modern
influential
83 sayings
Sayings by Immanuel Kant
A human being who is supposed to make use of his reason for himself needs only freedom, nothing else.
1784
— What is Enlightenment?
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A good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes—because of its fitness for attaining some proposed end: it is good only by virtue of the volition—that is, it is good in itself.
1785
— Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
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Respect for the law is not to be commanded, but to be felt.
1788
— Critique of Practical Reason
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