Immanuel Kant Quotes, Nature Quotes, Fate Quotes

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

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The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

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Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)

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Life is the faculty of spontaneous activity, the awareness that we have powers.

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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

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Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease

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All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism.

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The question is not so much whether there is life on Mars as whether it will continue to be possible to live on Earth

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Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom he has done good.

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Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

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

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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Honesty is better than any policy.

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Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?

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Arrogance is, as it were, a solicitation on the part of one seeking honor for followers, whom he thinks he is entitled to treat with contempt.

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The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

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A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

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Look closely. The beautiful may be small.

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