Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 22, 1724 Death: February 12, 1804
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose..
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adop….
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned..
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility.
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal..
Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful..
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disper….
Great minds think for themselves..
I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I ….
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even l….
A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man..
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals..
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the….
All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the si….
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness..
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no l….
At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communica….
The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth.
The nice thing about living in a small town is that when you don't know what you're doing, someone else does..
Everything in nature acts in conformity with law..