Immanuel Kant Quotes

Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher who is a central figure in modern philosophy. In his doctrine of transcendental idealism, he argued that space, time and causation are mere sensibilities; "things-in-themselves" exist, but their nature is unknowable. In his view, the mind shapes and structures experience, with all human experience sharing certain structural features. He drew a parallel to the Copernican revolution in his proposition that worldly objects can be intuited a priori and that intuition is therefore independent from objective reality. Kant believed that reason is the source of morality, and that aesthetics arise from a faculty of disinterested judgment. Kant's views continue to have a major influence on contemporary philosophy, especially the fields of epistemology, ethics, political theory, and post-modern aesthetics. ...more

Birth: April 22, 1724 - Death: February 12, 1804

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

All perception is colored by emotion.

Topic(s): Life , Emotion , Perception

Thinking in pictures precedes thinking in words.

Topic(s): Thinking , Words , Pictures And Words

A credit system, if used by the powers as an instrument of aggression against one another, shows the power of money in its most dangerous form.

Topic(s): Dangerous , Credit , Aggression

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

Topic(s): Men , Lying , Dignity

This ingenious system, invented by a commercial people in the present century, provides a military fund which may exceed the resources of all the other states put together. It can only be exhausted by an eventual tax-deficit, which may be postponed for a considerable time by the commercial stimulus which industry and trade receive through the credit system.

Topic(s): Military , Century , Taxes

Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

Topic(s): Evil , Procrastination , Impatience

Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

Topic(s): Mind , Hands , Law

So act that anything you do may become universal law.

Topic(s): May , Law , Universal

The human heart refuses To believe in a universe Without a purpose.

Topic(s): Believe , Heart , Humans

It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.

Topic(s): Men , Feels , Life Is

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Topic(s): Ifs , Men , Philosophical

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