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
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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.
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
To be fully comfortable to the principle of right, the form of government must be representative. This is the only one that permits republicanism, without which the government is arbitrary and despotic, whatever the constitution may be.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason
Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another
A man who has tasted with profound enjoyment the pleasure of agreeable society will eat with a greater appetite than he who rode horseback for two hours. An amusing lecture is as useful for health as the exercise of the body.