Through his 3 Critiques (knowledge, ethics, aesthetic), Kant has definitely revolutionized the history of philosophy. It is undoubtly the greatest German philosopher.
Here are some notable quotes by Immanuel Kant
Contents
- 1 Kant and philosophy:
- 2 Kant and metaphysics:
- 3 Kant and Pure Reason:
- 4 Kant and the moral / practical reason:
- 5 Kant, morality and happiness:
- 6 Kant on morality:
- 7 Kant and God:
- 8 Kant and the imagination:
- 9 Kant and the social life (sociability):
- 10 Kant and the aesthetic:
- 11 Kant and women / marriage:
- 12 Kant and stupidity:
Kant and philosophy:
– “We learn not philosophy, we learn to philosophize”
– “The aim of philosophy is to think for oneself”
Kant and metaphysics:
– “What do I know? – What should I do? – What am I allowed to hope?”
– “We do not know a priori of things that we put ourselves”
Kant and Pure Reason:
– “The senses without reason are empty, but the reason is blind without sense”
– “We do not know a priori of things that we put”
– “The items must be paid on our knowledge”
Kant and the moral / practical reason:
– “This court feels that the man in him is consciousness”
– “Act as if the maxim of your action were to be erected by your will a universal law of nature”
– “So act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your person in the person of any other, always at the same time as an end and never merely as means”
– “Two things fill the mind with admiration and awe constant: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me
– “For the night always lie to others: even if it does not interfere with another man, it hurts to humanity in general and makes it pointless source of law”
– “Pure reason is practical in itself and gives the man a universal law that we call the moral law”
– “Have the courage to use you your own understanding”
Kant, morality and happiness:
– “Morality is not, strictly speaking, the doctrine which teaches us how we should make ourselves happy, but how we make ourselves worthy of happiness”
– “Happiness is an ideal of the imagination rather than reason”
– “Man can not be sure of a concept that amount of satisfaction he calls happiness”
– “The selfish spirit is one that sees no good what is useful”
Kant on morality:
“Kant has clean hands, but he has no hands” (Péguy)
Kant and God:
– “The concept of God should fill the man of respect and therefore it should be used rarely and never lightly”
Kant and the imagination:
– “In darkness, the imagination works more actively in broad daylight”
– “Imagination is the pure representation of an absent object, but not yet incorporated”
– “Imagination is the empirical representation of an absent object that the subject has already established”
– “I mean here by opposing the unsocial sociability of men, that is to say, their inclination to enter into society, which propensity is, however, coupled with a general repulsion to do, constantly threatening to break up this company”
– “Man wishes concord, but nature knows better than him what is good for its kind: she wants discord.”
– “Spring of Life: the unsocial sociability that drives people to compete, which prevents them from falling asleep in the calm of a limited existence”
Kant and the aesthetic:
– “Is beautiful that which pleases universally without a concept”
– “The beautiful is the symbol of moral good”
– “Taste is the faculty of judging an object or a mode of representation by the satisfaction or displeasure in a manner entirely disinterested. Is called the beautiful object of satisfaction”
Kant and women / marriage:
– “In marriage the woman becomes free, by himself, man loses his freedom”
Kant and stupidity:
– “Man obtuse lack of spirit, mind of the fool”
