Kant Quotes
37 Kant quotes by 35 unique authors
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Kant is the most evil man in mankind's history.
— Ayn Rand
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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
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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
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The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.
— Bryan Magee
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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
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I'm no syllogism incarnate, but my wife makes me look like Immanuel Kant.
— Claudia Cardinale
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Immanuel Kant would've made a lousy lawyer, but a great judge!
— Stephen Gillers
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Immanuel isn't a pun; he Kant be!
— Oscar Wilde
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.
— Jose Clemente Orozco
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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