Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Browse All Authors Top 3 quotes by Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON Human reason is by nature architectonic. Immanuel Kant, CRITIQUE OF PURE REASON