Kant is awesome.

For years, I have been claiming to love the ideas of Soren Kierkegaard. I read his stuff, but seemed to lose the most basic ideas in the philosophy. I first read the philosophers in college and found one in particular whom I identified with the most. However, it wasn't Kierkegaard. And now I realize that I made a mistake. The philosopher I fell in love with in college was one Immanuel Kant.
In honor of him, I give you the following quotes.

“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”

“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.”

“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.”

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”

“Do what is right, though the world may perish”

“So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”

“The death of dogma is the birth of morality”

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

“Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.”

“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man”

“In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.”

“The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason”

“Perpetual Peace is only found in the graveyard”

“To be is to do.”

“It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.”

“Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.”

“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”

“Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild”

“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”