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
Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind.
Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.
Man relates to material things through direct insight rather than reason.
Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.
Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end.
Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
All appearances have a determinate magnitude (the relation of which to another assignable). The infinite does not appear as such, likewise not the simple. For the appearances are included between two boundaries (points) and are thus themselves determinate magnitudes.
I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present.
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