Knowledge Quotes by Immanuel Kant

There is nothing higher than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.

— Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

— Immanuel Kant

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

— Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

— Immanuel Kant

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

— Immanuel Kant

There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

— Immanuel Kant

“He who would know the world must first manufacture it.”

— Immanuel Kant

“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.”

— Immanuel Kant

It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.

— Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

— Immanuel Kant

I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.

— Immanuel Kant

Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

— Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

— Immanuel Kant

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through…

— Immanuel Kant

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every…

— Immanuel Kant

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

Most men use their knowledge only under guidance from others because they lack the courage to think independently using their own reasoning…

— Immanuel Kant

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to…

— Immanuel Kant

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the…

— Immanuel Kant

“...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

“...[M]oral instruction, although containing much that is convincing for the reason, ...accomplishes... little... [because] the teachers themselves have not got their own…

— Immanuel Kant

“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the…

— Immanuel Kant

“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

“It is in these very items of knowledge which go beyond the world of senses, where experience can neither guide nor correct…

— Immanuel Kant

“An age cannot bind itself and ordain to put the succeeding one into such a condition that it cannot extend its (at…

— Immanuel Kant

“Even as to himself, a man cannot pretend to know what he is in himself from the knowledge he has by internal…

— Immanuel Kant

I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

— Immanuel Kant