Biblical Quote by Allen W. Wood

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

— Allen W. Wood

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

[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 ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was…

— Hannah Arendt

Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity,…

— Allen W. Wood

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's treatments of rational theology and metaphysics were aimed primarily at theoretical questions. His attitude toward the pseudo-sciences of "special metaphysics" in Wolff and…

— Allen W. Wood

“Theology has, since Kant's time, become a theology of consciousness and experience and thus loses itself in religious anthropology.”

— Herman Bavinck

“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians…there are even Utilitarians.”

— Dr. Aaron Bunch

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

The picture of Kant as the 'theological Robespierre' or the "world-crusher" was first suggested by someone with whom Kant stood in a relation of…

— Allen W. Wood