Immanuel Kant Quotes

• By a lie, a man… annihilates his dignity as a man.

  Immanuel Kant

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• But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

  Immanuel Kant

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• Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

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• All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

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

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• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

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• 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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• Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

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• 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

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• Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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• May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

  Immanuel Kant

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

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

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• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

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• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe — the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

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Immanuel Kant (55)

Birth:	22nd April, 1724
Death:	12th February, 1804
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Philosopher

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Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is widely considered to be a central figure of modern philosophy. He argued that fundamental concepts structure human experience, and that reason is the source of morality. His thought continues to have a major influence in contemporary thought, especially the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political philosophy, and aesthetics.

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