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Immanuel Kant

(1724–1804) Anthropologist Kingdom of Prussia

476 quotes in 1435 categories

Immanuel Kant says perfection is pursued through education, not through anything else, for individuals and societies. He describes freedom as the faculty that makes all other abilities more useful. His categorical imperative demands actions be seen as necessary in themselves, without other purposes.

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Immanuel Kant was an anthropologist from the Kingdom of Prussia, best known for Kritik der reinen Vernunft.

Quick Facts About Immanuel Kant

Born: April 22, 1724
Died: February 12, 1804
Nationality: Kingdom of Prussia
Profession: Anthropologist
Notable works: Kritik der reinen Vernunft
Known for: Critique of Pure Reason, Answering the Question: What Is Enlightenment?, Critique of Practical Reason, Critique of Judgment, The Metaphysics of Morals

About Immanuel Kant

His systematic works covered epistemology, metaphysics, logic, ethics, aesthetics, political theory, and the philosophy of religion, making him one of the most influential and discussed figures in modern Western philosophy.

Quotes by Immanuel Kant

“Dare to think!”

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Beneficence is a duty.

Beneficence

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The hand is the visible part of the brain.

Brain

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“Freedom is the opposite of necessity.”

Freedom

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All our knowledge begins with the senses,

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Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

Thinking

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The wise man can change his mind; the stubborn one, never.

Men

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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

Essence

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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All perception is colored by emotion.

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Thrift is care and scruple in the spending of one's means. It is not a virtue and it requires neither skill nor…

Care

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Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Chaos

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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

Art

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

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Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

Death

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Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.

Freedom

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Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

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“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by…

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Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs…

Absolutes

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Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did…

Clock

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The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she…

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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic…

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The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone…

Alone man

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Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may…

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“Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is…

Awe

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“A will whose maxims necessarily coincide with the laws of autonomy is a holy will, good absolutely. The dependence of a will…

Freedom

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Perhaps a revolution can overthrow autocratic despotism and profiteering or power-grabbing oppression, but it can never truly reform a manner of thinking;…

Despotism

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Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the…

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“I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For…

First sight

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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by…

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“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may…

Difficult task

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All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not…

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Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as…

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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

Happiness

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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

Bounds

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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?

Hope

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“Give me matter and i will build a world out of it.”

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Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

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He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray

Atheism

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Immanuel Kant by topic

Reason (59) Nature (59) Men (56) Philosophy (50) Science (39) Law (36) Knowledge (35) Humans (35) Character (35) Inspirational (34) Life (31) Freedom (30) Nature of man (28) Psychology (27) Moral (24) Learning (24) Happiness (24) Religion (22)