“[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...[P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To know what questions may reasonably be asked is already a great and necessary proof of sagacity and insight. For if a… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of our mind; the first is to receive representations (receptivity of impressions), the second is… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Skepticism is thus a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings and make survey of the region… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Here then we see philosophy brought to a critical position, since it has to be firmly fixed, notwithstanding that it has nothing… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“All rational knowledge is either material, and concerns some objects, or formal, and is occupied only with the form of understanding and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Finer feeling, which we now wish to consider, is chiefly of two kinds: the feeling of the *sublime* and that of the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“This experiment succeeds as hoped and promises to metaphysics, in its first part, which deals with those *a priori* concepts to which… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“A similar experiment may be tried in metaphysics as regards the *intuition* of objects. If the intuition had to conform to the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Would it not therefore be wiser in moral concerns to acquiesce in the judgement of common reason, or at most only to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Our critique is not opposed to the *dogmatic procedure* of reason in its pure knowledge as science (for science must always be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber… — 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
