Reason Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Reason can never prove the existence of God.

— Immanuel Kant

There is nothing higher than reason.

— Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

— Immanuel Kant

The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

— Immanuel Kant

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

— Immanuel Kant

“Human reason goes forth inexorably to such questions as cannot be answered by any experiential use of reason or principles based on…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

— Immanuel Kant

“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

Reason should investigate its own parameters before declaring its omniscience.

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.

— Immanuel Kant

Human reason has the peculiar fate ... that it is burdened with questions that it cannot dismiss ... but which it also cannot answer.

— 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

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

— 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

“The will is conceived as a faculty of determining oneself to action in accordance with the conception of certain laws. And such…

— 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

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

— Immanuel Kant

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection…

— 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

“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

“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

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

— 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

Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[N]ature generally in the distribution of her capacities has adapted the means to the end... [so nature's] true destination must be to…

— 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

Christianity possesses the great advantage over Judaism of being represented as coming from the mouth of the first Teacher not as a…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— 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

“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as…

— Immanuel Kant

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much…

— 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

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

— Immanuel Kant

This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make…

— 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

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

— Immanuel Kant