“(On the seeming futility of metaphysics) Why then has nature afflicted our reason with the restless striving for such a path, as if it were one of reason's most important occupations? Still more, how little cause have we to place trust in our reason if in one of the most important parts of our desire for knowledge it does not merely forsake us but even entices us with delusions and in the end betrays us! Or if the path has merely eluded us so far, what indications may we use that might lead us to hope that in renewed attempts we will be luckier than those who have gone before us?”
Immanuel Kant“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.”
Immanuel Kant“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”
Immanuel Kant“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”
Immanuel Kant“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Immanuel Kant“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”
Immanuel Kant“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”
Immanuel Kant“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”
Immanuel Kant“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
Immanuel Kant“To be is to do.”
Immanuel Kant“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.'”
Immanuel Kant