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Immanuel Kant
1. Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind...The
understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union
can knowledge arise.
2. What objects may be in themselves, and apart from all this receptivity of our sensibility,
remains completely unknown to us.
3. We do not need science and philosophy to know what we should do to be honest and
good, yea, even wise and virtuous.
4. The sublime is what pleases immediately through its opposition to the interest of sense.
5. The beautiful is that which pleases universally without a concept.
6. It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not errnot because they always judge
rightly, but because they do not judge at all.
7. It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.
8. Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should
become a universal law.
9. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often
and the more intensely reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me
and the moral law within me.
10. Finally, there is an imperative which commands a certain conduct immediately...This
imperative is Categorical...This imperative may be called that of Morality.
11. Laughter is an affection arising from the sudden transformation of a strained expectation
into nothing.
12. Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical
knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.
13. I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.
14. I entitle transcendental all knowledge which is occupied not so much with objects as with
the mode of our knowledge of objects.
15. Hitherto it has been assumed that all our knowledge must conform to objects...We must
therefore make trial whether we may not have more success in the tasks of metaphysics,
if we suppose that objects must conform to our knowledge.
16. All our knowledge falls within the bounds of possible experience.
17. Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made.
18. Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of
perception itself.
19. Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.
20. There is no possibility of thinking of anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which
can be regarded as good without qualification, except a good will.
21. A good will is good not because of what it effects or accomplishes, nor because of its
fitness to attain some proposed end; it is good only through its willing, i.e. it is good in
itself.
22. The knowledge of the other world can be obtained here only by losing some of that
intelligence which is necessary for this present world.
23. Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.
24. The Germans are praised in that, when constancy and sustained diligence are demanded,
they can go further than other peoples.
25. Now I say: the beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.