Immanuel Kant Quotes

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• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart…
• Prudence approaches, conscience accuses.
• The existence of the Bible, as a book for the people, is the greatest benefit which the human race has ever experienced. Every attempt to…
• Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
• Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.
• ...as soon as we examine suicide from the standpoint of religion we immediately see it in its true light. We have been placed in this…
• What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
• All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.
• What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.
• Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all…
• Honesty is better than any policy.
• Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature…
• The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the…
• The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world…
• We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with…
• Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the…
• Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.
• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can…
• God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world…
• It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different…

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