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Immanuel Kant quotes

1724–1804 · German philosopher

Kant never travelled far from Königsberg and kept such regular habits that neighbours set clocks by his walks. He still shaped nearly all of modern philosophy.

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3 quotes traced to Immanuel Kant's own work or a reliable witness.

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Source: Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion (1788)

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Have courage to use your own understanding!

Source: "What is Enlightenment?" (1784) ("Sapere aude!")

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Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.

Source: Idea for a Universal History, Sixth Proposition (1784)