Quote

Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?

Immanuel Kant

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Immanuel Kant
Age: 79 †
Born: 1724
Born: April 22
Died: 1804
Died: February 12
Anthropologist
Librarian
Mathematician
Pedagogue
Philosopher
Physicist
University Teacher
Writer
Königsberg i. Pr.
Kant
Emmanuel Kant
Kant
Immanuel
Miserable
Worse
Exist
Single
Hell
Existence
Order
Eternally
Made
Infinitely

More quotes by Immanuel Kant

Image
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does.
Immanuel Kant
Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.
Immanuel Kant
Image
I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Image
An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.
Immanuel Kant
Image
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant
Image
In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science therefore it cannot bind all men together.
Immanuel Kant
Image
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Immanuel Kant
Image
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.
Immanuel Kant
Image
There is something splendid about innocence but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced.
Immanuel Kant
Image
There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant
Image
Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.
Immanuel Kant
Image
Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.
Immanuel Kant
Image
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
Immanuel Kant
Image
You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am
Immanuel Kant
Image
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.
Immanuel Kant
Image
Law And Freedom without Violence (Anarchy) Law And Violence without Freedom (Despotism) Violence without Freedom And Law (Barbarism) Violence with Freedom And Law (Republic)
Immanuel Kant
Image
Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease
Immanuel Kant
Image
Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.
Immanuel Kant
Image
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel Kant
Image
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.
Immanuel Kant