Pure Reason Quotes by Immanuel Kant

11 Pure Reason quotes by Immanuel Kant

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Kant’s eleven brief pronouncements on pure reason give a taste of his critical philosophy without overwhelming the reader. The collection highlights his focus on rational limits and the structure of thought.

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God, freedom, and immortality are untenable in the light of pure reason.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of…

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“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What…

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“...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of…

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“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with…

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“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my…

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

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“Metaphysics... is nothing but the inventory of all we possess through pure reason, ordered systematically. Nothing here can escape us, because what…

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“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data…

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

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“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may…

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

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

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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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…

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