philosophy Quotes

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

The virtues and vices are all put in motion by interest.

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

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

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.

Morality is the basis of things and truth is the substance of all morality.

It's no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.