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Immanuel Kant
1724 – 1804 • German • Philosopher
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Showing 37 quotesAll 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.— 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
From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.— 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.— Immanuel Kant
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Knowledge
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.— Immanuel Kant
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.— Immanuel Kant
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.— Immanuel Kant
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
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Good
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.— Immanuel Kant
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.— Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.— Immanuel Kant