Immanuel Kant
9 quotations
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a be general natural law.
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!