Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Mathematics, natural science, laws, arts, even morality, etc. do not completely fill the soul; there is always a space left over reserved… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order. — 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
All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“[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
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them:… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. — 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
Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which… — 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
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
