Immanuel Kant

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Biography : German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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Immanuel Kant - Quotes

Have courage to use your own reason!
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? /

Have courage to use your own reason!

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Practical Reason /

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant - Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals /

Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.

It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant - Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment? /

That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Judgment /

Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason /

The harmony that holds between truths is like the harmony in a painting.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant

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

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?
Immanuel Kant

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant - Critique of Pure Reason /

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant ? - Quotation of uncertain origin /

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I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant

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.
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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
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The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
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