--- title: "4 Length Quotes By Immanuel Kant" description: "4 Length quotes by Immanuel Kant. Plus more from Immanuel Kant and more Length sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/immanuel-kant-532_approach_reason-must-approach-nature-with-the-vie_279856.jpg" --- > [Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/reason-must-approach-nature-with-the-view-indeed-of-receiving/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d50/immanuel-kant-532_approach_reason-must-approach-nature-with-the-vie_279856.jpg) > [Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/beneficence-is-a-duty-he-who-frequently-practices-it-and-sees-his/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/103/immanuel-kant-532_beneficence_beneficence-is-a-duty-he-who-frequently_1470351.jpg) > [Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/beneficence-is-a-duty-and-he-who-frequently-practices-it-and-sees-his/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/4af/immanuel-kant-532_beneficence_beneficence-is-a-duty-and-he-who-frequen_1752617.jpg) > [Even the song of birds, which we can bring under no musical rule, seems to have more freedom, and therefore more for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/even-the-song-of-birds-which-we-can-bring-under-no-musical-rule-seems/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e5b/immanuel-kant-532_bird_even-the-song-of-birds-which-we-can-brin_1808247.jpg) ## Other authors on Length ## More by Immanuel Kant > [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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/even-if-a-civil-society-were-to-be-dissolved-by-the-consent-of-all/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/how-then-is-perfection-to-be-sought-wherein-lies-our-hope-in/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/heaven-has-given-human-beings-three-things-to-balance-the-odds-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/beauty-presents-an-indeterminate-concept-of-understanding-the-sublime/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/freedom-is-that-faculty-that-enlarges-the-usefulness-of-all-other/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/philosophical-knowledge-is-the-knowledge-gained-by-reason-from/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-categorical-imperative-would-be-one-which-represented-an-action-as/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/when-i-could-have-used-a-wife-i-could-not-support-one-and-when-i/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 motto of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/enlightenment-is-the-liberation-of-man-from-his-self-caused-state-of/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/the-ideal-of-the-supreme-being-is-nothing-but-a-regulative-principle/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/jeg-skal-alltid-handle-slik-at-den-regelen-jeg-handler-etter-kunne/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/deaths-births-and-marriages-considering-how-much-they-are-separately/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/it-is-precisely-in-knowing-its-limits-that-philosophy-consists/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/a-society-that-is-not-willing-to-demand-a-life-of-somebody-who-has/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) > [. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/immanuel-kant/as-to-moral-feeling-this-supposed-special-sense-the-appeal-to-it-is/) [Immanuel Kant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/immanuel-kant/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/length/immanuel-kant/#itemlist", "name": "4 Length Quotes By Immanuel Kant", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. 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