But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

- Immanuel Kant

Act as if the maxim of your action were to become through your will a general natural law.

- Immanuel Kant

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

- Immanuel Kant

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

- Immanuel Kant

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.

- Immanuel Kant

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

- Immanuel Kant

The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

- Immanuel Kant

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

- Immanuel Kant