Immanuel Kant Quotes & Sayings (Page 3)

“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”

“Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.”

“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.'”

“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”

“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?”

“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

“Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.”