Kant Quotes

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Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. — Alain de Botton
Kant, discussing the various modes of perception by which the human mind apprehends nature, concluded that it is specially prone to see nature through mathematical… — James Jeans
One of the principal motifs of Nietzsche's work is that Kant had not carried out a true critique because he was not able to pose… — Gilles Deleuze
In his essay, ‘Perpetual Peace,’ the philosopher, Immanuel Kant, argued that perpetual peace would eventually come to the world in one of two ways, by… — Henry A. Kissinger
Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history. — Ayn Rand
Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years and begot an… — Stefan Zweig
Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people… — Roger Penrose
The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy. — Bryan Magee
UNDERSTANDING, n. A cerebral secretion that enables one having it to know a house from a horse by the roof on the house. Its nature… — Ambrose Bierce
I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant. — Claudia Cardinale
Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge! — Stephen Gillers
Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be! — Oscar Wilde
There was a German philosopher who is very well known, his name was Immanuel Kant, and he said there are two things that don’t have… — John Cage
Oh, a bookshop. Why not pop in and buy a little Kant? And perhaps just a quarter-pound of Kafka. Don't bother to wrap it, thanks.… — Frederick Busch
A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology and many other things. Without a… — Gertrude Stein
To go straight to the deepest depth, I went for Hegel; what unclear thoughtless flow of words I was to find there! My unlucky star… — Ludwig Boltzmann
Don't Shoot is a work of moral philosophy that reads like a crime novel - Immanuel Kant meets Joseph Wambaugh. It's a fascinating, inspiring, and… — John Seabrook
I am a humanist because I think humanity can, with constant moral guidance, create reasonably decent societies. I think that young people who want to… — James A. Michener
The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This… — Josiah Royce
All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo. — Jose Clemente Orozco
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as… — Wilhelm Dilthey
How I understand the philosopher - as a terrible explosive, endangering everthing... my concept of the philosopher is worlds removed from any concept that would… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Machiavelli, however, took his bearings from people as they are. He defined the political project as making the best of this flawed material. He knew… — George Will
For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes and Kant) at sight without a dictionary. That… — Paul Engle
The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them. — William James

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