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
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made.
Freedom in the practical sense is the independence of the power of choice from necessitation by impulses of sensibility
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.