Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kant
Immanuel Kantwas a German philosopher who is considered the central figure of modern philosophy. Kant argued that fundamental concepts of the human mind structure human experience, that reason is the source of morality, that aesthetics arises from a faculty of disinterested judgment, that space and time are forms of our sensibility, and that the world as it is "in-itself" is unknowable. Kant took himself to have effected a Copernican revolution in philosophy, akin to Copernicus' reversal of the age-old belief...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 April 1724
CountryGermany
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling to the people for not having insisted upon this punishment; for otherwise the people can be regarded as collaborators in his public violation of justice.
I am an investigator by inclination. I feel a great thirst for knowledge.
THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.
Laws always lose in energy what the government gains in extent.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
If I am to constrain you by any law, it must be one by which I am also bound.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
For how is it possible, says that acute man, that when a concept is given me, I can go beyond it and connect with it another which is not contained in it, in such a manner as if that latter necessarily belonged to the former?
The more we come in contact with animals and observe their behaviour, the more we love them, for we see how great is their care of the young.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.