Heavy Quote by Alfred Nobel

“To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to…

— Thomas de Quincey

Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.

— W. Somerset Maugham

“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things not because…

— W. Somerset Maugham

Some of Kant's particular moral opinions, either because he shared the prejudices of his time, or because of his own personal crotchets, can strike…

— Allen W. Wood

[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had…

— Bertrand Russell

Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he…

— H. L. Mencken

Kant certainly was sympathetic with the metaphysical tradition of rational theology that he criticized.

— Allen W. Wood

“Kant is the last person in the world whom we should read on Kant.”

— Will Durant

Kant ... discovered "the scandal of reason," that is the fact that our mind is not capable of certain and verifiable knowledge regarding matters…

— Hannah Arendt

Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at…

— Allen W. Wood

“It was not possible to reason with unreasonable people”

— Vince Flynn

Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach.

— Ayn Rand