Nature Quotes by Immanuel Kant

With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war.

— Immanuel Kant

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

— Immanuel Kant

“act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.”

— Immanuel Kant

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account…

— Immanuel Kant

“Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.”

— Immanuel Kant

“Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as…

— Immanuel Kant

Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

— Immanuel Kant

Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

— Immanuel Kant

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into…

— Immanuel Kant

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are…

— Immanuel Kant

Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a…

— Immanuel Kant

Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and…

— Immanuel Kant

In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence…

— Immanuel Kant

“If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them…

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss,…

— Immanuel Kant

We ourselves introduce that order and regularity in the appearance which we entitle "nature". We could never find them in appearances had…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be…

— 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

“As nature has uncovered from under this hard shell the seed for which she most tenderly cares - the propensity and vocation…

— Immanuel Kant

Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man…

— Immanuel Kant

“Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved…

— Immanuel Kant

Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in…

— Immanuel Kant

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond…

— Immanuel Kant

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who…

— Immanuel Kant

“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only…

— Immanuel Kant

“[To think for oneself] is the maxim of a reason never passive. The tendency to such passivity, and therefore to heteronomy of…

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“[A man] finds in himself a talent which with the help of some culture might make him a useful man in many…

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“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help…

— Immanuel Kant

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it…

— Immanuel Kant

“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to…

— Immanuel Kant

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external…

— Immanuel Kant

“A good will is good not because of what it effects, or accomplishes, not because of its fitness to attain some intended…

— Immanuel Kant

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

— Immanuel Kant

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

— Immanuel Kant

All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

— Immanuel Kant