“However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on.”

— Immanuel Kant, Metaphysical Principles of Virtue (Metaphysics of Morals), 1797

About Immanuel Kant

1724 – 1804

German philosopher of the Enlightenment, author of the "Critique of Pure Reason".

“Have courage to use your own understanding!”

“Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“He is a wise man who does not grieve for the things which he has not, but rejoices for those which he has.”

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“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”

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“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.”

“He who knows others is wise; he who knows himself is enlightened.”

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“The man who asks a question is a fool for a minute, the man who does not ask is a fool for life.”

“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”