God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science… — 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
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection… — 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
“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,… — 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
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man… — 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
“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of… — 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
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond… — 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
“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — 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
“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
“[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
“...new prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses. For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal… — 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
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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