Quotes About Philosophy

all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.

In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. What has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; what on the other hand is raised above all price and therefore admits of no equivalent has a dignity.

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.

Immanuel Kant

From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.

Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.

But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.

Man, and in general every rational being, exists as an end in himself, not merely as a means for arbitrary use by this or that will: he must in all his actions, whether they are directed to himself or to other rational beings, always be viewed at the same time as an end.

The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? (Critique of Pure Reason

From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.

High towers, and metaphysically-great men resembling them, round both of which there is commonly much wind, are not for me. My place is the fruitful bathos, the bottom-land, of experience; and the word transcendental, does not signify something passing beyond all experience, but something that indeed precedes it a priori, but that is intended simply to make cognition of experience possible.

Toute intuition sans concept n'aboutit pas Tout concept sans intuition est vide

Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.

Sesuatu untuk dikerjakan, seseorang untuk dicintai, sesuatu untuk diharapkan. Itulah kebahagiaan.

La belleza artística no consiste en representar una cosa bella, sino en la bella representación de una cosa.

act as if the maxim of your action were to become by your will a general law of nature.

Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.

True politics cannot take a single step without first paying homage to morals, and while politics itself is a difficult art, its combination with morals is no art at all; for morals cuts the Gordian knot which politics cannot solve as soon as the two are in conflict.

P]hysics... [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws.

Philosophical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from concepts; mathematical knowledge is knowledge which reason gains from the construction of concepts.

From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!