The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.” — 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
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The sum total of all possible knowledge of God is not possible for a human being, not even through a true revelation.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Enlightenment is man's release from his self-incurred tutelage. Tutelage is man's inability to make use of his understanding without direction from another.… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its… — 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
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — 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
“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — 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
“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to… — 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
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region… — 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 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
“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — 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
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
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