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
It is often necessary to make a decision on the basis of knowledge sufficient for action but insufficient to satisfy the intellect.
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is to be avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.
If a man is often the subject of conversation he soon becomes the subject of criticism.
Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.
Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
The existence of the Bible is the greatest blessing which humanity ever experienced.
There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.
The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
Since the narrower or wider community of the peoples of the earth has developed so far that a violation of rights in one place is felt throughout the world, the idea of a cosmopolitan right is not fantastical, high-flown or exaggerated notion. It is a complement to the unwritten code of the civil and international law, necessary for the public rights of mankind in general and thus for the realization of perpetual peace.
Ghost stories are always listened to and well received in private, but pitilessly disavowed in public. For my own part, ignorant as I am of the way in which the human spirit enters the world and the way in which he goes out of it, I dare not deny the truth of many such narratives.
God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.
[A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights.