Immanuel Kant Quotes, Yield Quotes, Intuition Quotes

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.

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If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.

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There is a limit where the intellect fails and breaks down, and this limit is where the questions concerning God and freewill and immortality arise.

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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.

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It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.

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Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

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Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

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All appearances are real and negatio; sophistical: All reality must be sensation.

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Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

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For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?

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One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.

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The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

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An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences.

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Feminine traits are called weaknesses. People joke about them; fools ridicule them; but reasonable persons see very well that those traits are just the tools for the management of men, and for the use of men for female designs.

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Marriage...is the union of two people of different sexes with a view to the mutual possession of each other's sexual attributes for the duration of their lives.

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Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.

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If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

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