Saturday 14 September 2024


  • All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

  • All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?

  • Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  • Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

  • Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

  • Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

  • A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

  • Intuition and concepts constitute… the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

  • Immaturity is the incapacity to use one’s intelligence without the guidance of another.

  • From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.  

  • Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Kant

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