Immanuel Kant Quotes

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Neither moral relations nor the moral law can swing in vacuo. Their only habitat can be a mind which feels them; and no world composed of merely physical facts can possibly be a world to which ethical propositions apply.

How should all the apparatus of heaven and earth make poetry for a mind that had no movements of awe and tenderness, no sense of fellowship which thrills from the near to the distant, and back again from the distant to the near?

In wonder all philosophy began, in wonder it ends, and admiration fill up the interspace; but the first wonder is the offspring of ignorance, the last is the parent of adoration.

Sunsets are so beautiful that they almost seem as if we were looking through the gates of Heaven.

If we can find God only as he is revealed in nature we have no moral God.

The difference between religion and morality lies simply in the classical division of things into the divine and the human, if one only interprets this correctly.

To argue about justice is unavoidably to argue about virtues, about substantive moral and even spiritual questions.

There is a much more exact correspondence between the natural and moral world than we are apt to take notice of.

The nature of things is dharma.

A morning-glory at my window satisfies me more than the metaphysics of books.

Science is the natural ally of religion.

What inspires me is the universe.

There is a spectacle more grand than the sea; it is heaven; there is a spectacle more grand than heaven; it is the conscience.

Philosophy has no end in view save truth; faith looks for nothing but obedience and piety.

The emotion felt by a man in the presence of nature certainly counts for something in the origin of religions.

In every true searcher of Nature there is a kind of religious reverence.

Morality comes from humanism and is stolen by religion for its own purposes.

What I call the law of satyagraha is to be deduced from an appreciation of duties and rights flowing therefrom.

Morality must always precede and accompany religion, and yet religion is much more than morality.

Conscience is the internal perception of God's Moral Law.

He who has knowledge of the just and the good and beautiful ... will not, when in earnest, write them in ink.