Immanuel Kant Quotes About Humanity

Quotes about: Humanity

• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Humanity, Force

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Made, Timber

  "Idea for a General History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose" by Immanuel Kant, (Proposition 6), 1784.

• Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, 4th Of July, Men

• The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to belittle it is a crime against humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Bible, Book, Biblical

• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty.

  Immanuel Kant

  Grief, Fate, Psychology

• Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Communication, Mean

• Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

  Immanuel Kant

  Race, Perfection, Humanity

  "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1798.

• Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Humanity, Way

• Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom.

  Immanuel Kant

  Freedom, Men, Humanity

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.202

• 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 adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

  Immanuel Kant

  Adoption, Humanity, Principles

  "Metaphysics of Morals". Book by Immanuel Kant, Part Two : Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, 1797.

• I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Rights, Humanity

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

• Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made.

  Immanuel Kant

  Humanity, Als, Made

  'Idee zu einer allgemeinen Geschichte in weltbürgerlicher Absicht' (1784) proposition 6

• Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Humanity, Use

• The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.

  Immanuel Kant

  Blessing, Humanity, Existence

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