Immanuel Kant

German philosopher and one of the central Enlightenment thinkers

  • All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
  • Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
  • Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
  • It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
  • To be is to do.
  • Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
  • What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
  • 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.
  • Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
  • Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
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