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Immanuel Kant Quotes (111 quotes)
 | “In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Lectures on Ethics: The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Immanuel Kant, translated by Peter Heath, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 192 - ISBN: 9780521788045 |
| “All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781;1787) |
| “All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787) |
| Source/Notes: Critique of Practical Reason (1788) |
| “He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Alternative translation in: Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 212, "Of Duties to animals and Spirits" - ISBN: 9780521788045 |
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| Source/Notes: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785) |
| “Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: What is Enlightenment? (1784) |
| “Man's greatest concern is to know how he shall properly fill his place in the universe and correctly understand what he must be in order to be a man.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 53 - The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904) |
| “Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.” ―Immanuel Kant Source/Notes: As quoted in "Reasoning: a textbook of elementary logic", Peter Archibald Carmichael, Philosophical Library, 1978, p. 136 |
| Source/Notes: Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics (1785) |
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Immanuel Kant
Born: April 22, 1724
Died: February 12, 1804 (aged 79)
Nationality: German
Occupation: Philosopher
Bio: Immanuel Kant was a German philosopher from Königsberg, who researched, lectured, and wrote on philosophy and anthropology during the Enlightenment at the end of the 18th century.
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