Denied Quote by Hannah Arendt

“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”

— Immanuel Kant

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

— W. Somerset Maugham

He believed in the primacy of doubt, not as a blemish upon our ability to know, but as the essence of knowing.

— James Gleick

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

— 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

“Faith requires nothing but blind adherence, whereas knowledge demands the continual apprehension of an ever-expanding body of information. With faith, one can at least…

— Mark Hodder

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

“Moreover, he felt vaguely that what he called his convictions were not only ignorance but were a way of thinking that made the knowledge…

— Leo Tolstoy

[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

“Faith means I chose not to know, which is different than ignorance which refuses to know.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough

It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,…

— Ray Brassier

Where knowledge is denied, faith comes in.

— Frederick Philip Grove