Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant

16 quotes

German philosopher Immanuel Kant has a gift for language that makes complex ideas feel instantly clear. The range of their thinking — from Knowledge to Happiness — speaks to an intellectual restlessness that shows in every quote. Discover 22 of Immanuel Kant's most memorable quotes, ranging across Knowledge, Happiness, Experience, Hope, and Wisdom. Here is a taste of their wisdom: "But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience."

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

— Immanuel Kant

Experience

All Quotes by Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

Hope

“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”

— Immanuel Kant

Religion

“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

Men

“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”

— Immanuel Kant

Experience

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

— Immanuel Kant

Knowledge

“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

Hope

“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.”

— Immanuel Kant

God

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

— Immanuel Kant

Knowledge

“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

Knowledge

“Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.”

— Immanuel Kant

Knowledge

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

— Immanuel Kant

Experience

“It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience.”

— Immanuel Kant

Experience

“Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.”

— Immanuel Kant

Happiness

“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

War

“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”

— Immanuel Kant

Happiness

“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”

— Immanuel Kant

Intelligence