Immanuel Kant Quotes
No.	Quotation	Subject
1	Men can never acquire respect by benevolence alone, though they may gain love, so that the greatest beneficence only procures them honour when it is regulated by worthiness.	Honor
2	If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.	Humility
3	Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of nothing.	World
4	Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.	Humanity
5	A metaphysics of morals is therefore indispensably necessary, not merely because of a motive to speculation - for investigating the source of the practical basic principles that lie a priori in our reason - but also becuase morals themselves remain subjec	Morals
6	[on the supreme principle or category imperative] I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a univeral law. Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals	Action
7	I do not, therefore, need any penetrating acuteness to see what I have to do in order that my volition be morally good. Inexperienced in the course of the world, incapable of being prepared for whatever might come to pass in it, I ask myself only: can you	Miscellaneous
8	...even if there never have been actions arising from such pure sources, what is at issue here is not whether this or that happened; that, instead, reason by itself and independently of all appearances commands what ought to happen; that, accordingly, act	Actions
9	Morality is thus the relation of actions to the autonomy of the will, that is, to a possible giving of universal law through its maxims. An action that can coexist with the autonomy of the will is permitted; one that does not accord with it is forbidden.	Morality

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