이마누엘 칸트
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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.
To be is to do.
Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe – the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
칸트
머리 위에는 별이 반짝이는 하늘, 내 마음에는 도덕률.
의심할 여지가 없는 순수한 희열의 하나는 근로 뒤의 휴식이다.
인간은 교육을 통하지 않고는 인간이 될 수 없는 유일한 존재다.
인생은 선을 실행하기 위하여 만들어졌다.
자기와 남의 인격을 수단으로 삼지 말고 항상 목적으로 대우해야 한다.
자유란 모든 특권을 유효하게 발휘시키는 특권이다.
재물은 생활을 위한 방편일 뿐 그 자체가 목적이 될 수는 없다.
진실한 사랑에 빠진 남자는 그 애인 앞에서 어쩔 줄을 몰라 제대로 사랑을 고백하지도 못한다.
진정으로 사랑하고 있는 남자는 여인 앞에서는 어찌할 바를 모르고 졸렬하며 애교도 부리지 못한다.
행복의 원칙은 첫째 어떤 일을 할 것, 둘째 어떤 사람을 사랑할 것, 세째 어떤 일에 희망을 가질 것이다.