Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785) — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It is true, no doubt, that this principle of the necessary unity of apperception is itself an identical and therefore an analytic… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share
