Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kantwas a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 April 1724
CountryGermany
All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.
Every human being should always be treated as an end and never as a mere instrument.
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
Do the right thing because it is right.
Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any
The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
. . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .
The yellow Indians do have a meagre talent. The Negroes are far below them, and at the lowest point are a part of the American people.
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.
Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them.
Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.