24 Quotes By Immanuel Kant


Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant on experience

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant on experience

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant on experience

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant on god

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant on happiness

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant on happiness

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant on happiness

All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
Immanuel Kant on hope

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant on hope

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant on imagination

Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant on intelligence

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
Immanuel Kant on knowledge

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant on men

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant on religion

Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant on science