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
Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another
Freedom can never be comprehended, nor even can insight into it be gained.
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
To be fully comfortable to the principle of right, the form of government must be representative. This is the only one that permits republicanism, without which the government is arbitrary and despotic, whatever the constitution may be.
The possession of power unavoidably spoils the free use of reason
Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
The two great dividers are religion and LANGUAGE
Three things tell a man: his eyes, his friends and his favorite quotes
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
The only thing permanent is change.
The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed.
All perception is colored by emotion.