Kant Quotes

37 Kant quotes by 35 unique authors

• 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
• The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. — Karl Kraus
• Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Now, my own suspicion is that the universe is not only queerer than we suppose, but queerer than we can suppose. I have read and… — John B. S. Haldane
• Mozart, Pascal, Boolean algebra, Shakespeare, parliamentary government, baroque churches, Newton, the emancipation of women, Kant, Balanchine ballets, et al. don’t redeem what this particular civilization… — Susan Sontag
• Gregariousness is always the refuge of mediocrities, whether they swear by Soloviev or Kant or Marx. Only individuals seek the truth, and they shun those… — Boris Pasternak
• Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant. — W. Somerset Maugham
• You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. — Robert Louis Stevenson
• Love iz like the meazles; we kant have it bad but onst, and the later in life we have it the tuffer it goes with… — Josh Billings
• Helmholtz is not a philosopher in the exclusive sense, as Kant, Hegel, Mansel are philosophers, but one who prosecutes physics and physiology, and acquires therein… — James Clerk Maxwell
• Coleridge observes that all men are born Aristotelians or Platonists. The latter feel that classes, orders, and genres arerealities; the former, that theyare generalizations. For… — Jorge Luis Borges

Who Wrote These Kant Quotes

35 authors contributed a total of 37 Kant Quotes, led by these top contributors:

• 2 Kant Quotes by Robert Louis Stevenson
• 2 Kant Quotes by Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
• 1 Kant Quote by William James
• 1 Kant Quote by Wilhelm Dilthey
• 1 Kant Quote by W. Somerset Maugham
• 1 Kant Quote by Susan Sontag
• 1 Kant Quote by Stephen Gillers
• 1 Kant Quote by Stefan Zweig
• 1 Kant Quote by Roger Penrose
• 1 Kant Quote by Paul Engle
• 1 Kant Quote by Oscar Wilde
• 1 Kant Quote by Ludwig Boltzmann
• 1 Kant Quote by Karl Kraus
• 1 Kant Quote by Josiah Royce
• 1 Kant Quote by Josh Billings
• 1 Kant Quote by Jose Clemente Orozco
• 1 Kant Quote by Jorge Luis Borges
• 1 Kant Quote by John Seabrook
• 1 Kant Quote by John Cage
• 1 Kant Quote by John B. S. Haldane
• 1 Kant Quote by James Jeans
• 1 Kant Quote by James Clerk Maxwell
• 1 Kant Quote by James A. Michener
• 1 Kant Quote by Henry A. Kissinger
• 1 Kant Quote by Gilles Deleuze