Immanuel Kant Quotes

“Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

topic:happiness morality

“That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:knowledge experience doubt

“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:knowledge understanding reason

“If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility...”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:knowledge

“Intuition and conceptions constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither conceptions without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without conceptions, can afford us a cognition.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:knowledge

“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:knowledge experience

“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:religion ignorance morality

“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

topic:good evil reason

“Deficiency in judgement is properly that which is called stupidity; and for such a failing we know no remedy.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

topic:stupidity judgement

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