Quotes by
Immanuel Kant |
1724-1804 , German philosopher
German philosopher who is considered a central figure in modern philosophy. His comprehensive and systematic work in epistemology (the theory of knowledge), ethics, and aesthetics greatly influenced all subsequent philosophy.His major work: “The Critique of Pure Reason” (1781).
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Quotations
| • | All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. 15 |
| • | But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. 8 |
| • | The death of dogma is the birth of morality. 6 |
| • | Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends. 6 |
| • | The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. 6 |
| • | We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without. 4 |
| • | Dare to think! 4 |
| • | Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild. 4 |
| • | Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. 4 |
| • | Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. 4 |
| • | I had to squeeze knowledge to make room for faith. 3 |
| • | I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith. 3 |
| • | Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. 3 |
| • | Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. 3 |
| • | Metaphysics has as the proper object of its inquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality. 3 |
| • | Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. 3 |
| • | The more habits, the less freedom. 2 |
| • | The appeal to common sense is nothing more than a reference to the approval of the crowd. 1 |
| • | In war, neither side can be declared in advance to be in the wrong, but only the outcome of the war decides which side is in the right. 1 |
| • | The greatest sensual pleasure which does not contain any admixture of disgust is, in a healthy state, rest after work 1 |
| • | All people have a moral sense. Since this sense does not always motivate a person to actions that bring him earthly benefit, therefore, there must be some basis, some motivation for moral behavior that lies outside this world. 1 |
