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
Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.
Human reason is by nature architectonic.
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Art is purposiveness without purpose.
It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him.
Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.
It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.
Do what is right, though the world may perish.
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
Great minds think for themselves.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.