Quotes About Philosophy

We now concern ourselves with a labor less spectacular but nevertheless not unrewarding: that of making the terrain for these majestic moral edifices level and firm enough to be built upon; for under this ground there are all sorts of passageways, such as moles might have dug, left over from reason's vain but confident treasure hunting, that make every building insecure. (A319/B377)

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.

I should never act in such a way that I could not also will that my maxim should be a universal law.

Nu se poate înv??a filozofia; se poate înv??a doar filozofarea.

The real is not given to us, but put to us by way of a riddle.

Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is.

the doctrine of morals is an autonomy of practical reason, while the doctrine of virtue is at the same time an autocracy of practical reason.

Gustavo Solivellas dice: La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación (Immanuel Kant)

B626 Sein ist offenbar kein reales Prädikat, d.i. ein Begriff von irgend etwas, was zu dem Begriffe eines Dinges, oder gewisser Bestimmungen an sich selbst... B627 Und so enthält das Wirkliche nichts mehr, als das bloss Mögliche. Hundert wirkliche Thaler enthalten nicht das mindeste mehr, als hundert mögliche... Aber in meinem Vermögenszustande ist mehr bei hundert wirklichen Thalern, als bei dem blossen Begriffe derselben, ( d.i. ihrer Moeglichkeit ).

whose true object is to shed the clearest light on every step which reason takes.

L'uomo deve mostrare bontà di cuore verso gli animali, perché chi usa essere crudele verso di essi è altrettanto insensibile verso gli uomini.

Agisci in modo da considerare l'umanità come scopo, e mai come semplice mezzo.

A learned woman might just as well have a beard, for that expresses in a more recognizable form the profundity for which she strives.

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

Pensamentos sem conteúdos são vazios, intuições sem conceitos são cegas.

If there is any science man really needs it is the one I teach, of how to occupy properly that place in creation that is assigned to man, and how to learn from it what one must be in order to be a man.

El mundo de ningún modo se hundirá porque haya menos hombres malos.

The crux of his new philosophy is this: What assurance do we have that our a priori (rational) thoughts have in reality a relation to objects that exist apart from us?

Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.

It must be freely admitted that there is a sort of circle here from which it seems impossible to escape. In the order of efficient causes we assume ourselves free, in order that in the order of ends we may conceive ourselves as subject to these laws because we have attributed to ourselves freedom of will; for freedom and self-legislation of will are both autonomy...

The world will by no means perish by a diminution in the number of evil men.

Space is an ineluctable modality of our perception (IMMANUEL KANT) …. Or perhaps is it, more essentially and explicitly than ever, ever-providing modalities? (Irene Doura-Kavadia)

all duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.

Es gibt nichts Praktischeres als eine gute Theorie.