Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.

Immanuel Kant
Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
Immanuel Kant

We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

I had to suspend knowledge, in order to make room for faith.

Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

To Be is To Do.
Immanuel Kant
Dare to think!
Immanuel Kant
Ovo je isto to:
Enlightenment is mans emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the
inability to use ones understanding without guidance from another. This immaturity is selfimposed when its cause lies not in lack of understanding, but in lack of resolve and courage to use
it without guidance from another. Sapere Aude! Have courage to use your own
understanding!that is the motto of enlightenment.
Immanuel Kant

For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the
whole first.
Immanuel Kant
A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to
attain some intended end, but good just by its willing, i.e. in itself; and, considered by itself, it is
to be esteemed beyond compare much higher than anything that could ever be brought about by
it in favor of some inclinations, and indeed, if you will, the sum of all inclinations. Even if by
some particular disfavor of fate, or by the scanty endowment of a stepmotherly nature, this will
should entirely lack the capacity to carry through its purpose; if despite its greatest striving it
should still accomplish nothing, and only the good will were to remain (not of course, as a mere
wish, but as the summoning of all means that are within our control); then, like a jewel, it would
still shine by itself, as something that has full worth in itself".
Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
Immanuel Kant

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why
it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book
which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I
need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me.
Immanuel Kant
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.
Immanuel Kant
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a
universal law.
Immanuel Kant
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another
opinion.
Immanuel Kant, Critique of Judgment
By a lie a man throws away and as it were annihilates his dignity as a man
Immanuel Kant
What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses,
remains for us absolutely unknown
Immanuel Kant
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is
also the epoch of its decay.
Immanuel Kant, Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.
Oscar Wilde
Be the change that you wish to see in the world.
Mahatma Gandhi
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
Mahatma Gandhi
For most of history, Anonymous was a woman.
Virginia Woolf
Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.
Albert Camus
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
Plato
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein
I cannot teach anybody anything. I can only make them think
Socrates
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights cannot claim
to be defenders of minorities.
Ayn Rand

Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;

Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;
Man got to tell himself he understand.
Kurt Vonnegut, Cat's Cradle

Is it possible, in the final analysis, for one human being to achieve perfect understanding of
another?
We can invest enormous time and energy in serious efforts to know another person, but in the
end, how close can we come to that person's essence? We convince ourselves that we know the
other person well, but do we really know anything important about anyone?
Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle.
Socrates
The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to
end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.
Bertrand Russell

To ask about cause of things is the same as to look for the beginning of eternity.
Democritus
If you are asked, what is more ancient than gods? It is fear and hope.
Pytagoras
A man is a huge chasm. It is easy to count his hairs than his feelings and the motions of his
heart. Augustine
There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope. ~ Spinoza
Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?
Martin Heidegger, Introduction to Metaphysics
The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.
Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
Language is the house of the truth of Being.
Martin Heidegger, Letter on Humanism
From our human experience and history, at least as far as I am informed, I know that
everything essential and great has only emerged when human beings had a home and were
rooted in a tradition. Todays literature is, for instance, largely destructive.

Martin Heidegger, An Interview

In everything well known something worthy of thought still lurks.

Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche

Eternity, not as a static now, nor as a sequence of nows rolling off into the infinite, but as
the now that bends back into itself. Thinking the most difficult thought of philosophy
means thinking being as time.

Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche

We do not have a body; rather, we are bodily.

Martin Heidegger, Nietzsche

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

The World and Life are one. Physiological life is of course not "Life". And neither is
psychological life. Life is the world.
Ethics does not treat of the world. Ethics must be a condition of the world, like logic.
Ethics and Aesthetics are one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus

For an answer which cannot be expressed the question too cannot be expressed.
The riddle does not exist.
If a question can be put at all, then it can also be answered.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Our life is endless in the way that our visual field is without limit.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Language disguises thought.
Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Science enables us to realise our purposes, and if our purposes are evil, the result is disaster.
Bertrand Russell