30 phrases by Immanuel Kant to better understand your thoughts

Always act in such a way that your behavior may become the principle of a universal law.

All inner reform and all change for the better depend solely on the application of our own effort.

There is no virtue so strong that it is safe from temptation.

We can judge a man’s heart by the way he treats animals.

Man can only be man through education.

It is in the problem of education that the great secret of the improvement of humanity lies.

You are free the moment you don’t look outside yourself for someone to solve your problems.

Friendship is similar to good coffee; once cold, it doesn’t heat up without losing a lot of the first taste.

There is only one true religion, but there can be many kinds of faith.

Education is the development in man of all the perfection of which his nature is capable.

Joyful reading is as beneficial to health as exercise of the body.

The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Beautiful is everything that pleases disinterestedly.

Anything you can’t tell how you did it, don’t do it!

The sage can change his mind. The ignorant, never.

Man is the only animal that needs to work.

The intelligence of an individual is evaluated by the amount of uncertainties that he is able to withstand.

We are all equal in the face of moral duty.

The same happens to merit and innocence: they are lost, as long as we support ourselves from them.

Virtue always lasts longer than other qualities and is always the first to appear.

The more love we have, the easier we make our way through the world.

Man’s supreme mission is to know what he needs to be a man.

Two things fill my soul with growing admiration and respect, the more intensely and often the thought is occupied with them: The starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

We are not rich because of what we have, but because of what we don’t need to have.

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

There are no guarantees. From the point of view of fear, no one is strong enough. From the point of view of love, no one is needed.

Those who do not know what they are looking for, do not identify what they find.

Man is nothing but what education makes him.

All our knowledge is born in sense, passes through understanding and ends in reason.