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
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed… — 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
“My object is to persuade all those who think metaphysics worth studying that it is absolutely necessary to pause a moment and,… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — 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
“True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — 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
“(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
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“What might be said of things in themselves, separated from all relationship to our senses, remains for us absolutely unknown” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[T]here is no art in being intelligible if one renounces all thoroughness of insight; but also it produces a disgusting medley of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — 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
“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
Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil… — 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 Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — 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 of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
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 Image
