Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason. Immanuel Kant finals peace science Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. Immanuel Kant progress men reality Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. Immanuel Kant recognition philosophical religious Two things strike me dumb: the infinite starry heavens, and the sense of right and wrong in man. Immanuel Kant men heaven two 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 concern men order Human reason has the peculiar fate in one species of its cognitions that it is burdened with questions which it cannot dismiss, since they are given to it as problems by the nature of reason itself, but which it also cannot answer, since they transcend every capacity of human reason. Immanuel Kant fate peculiar answers The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world as if it originated from an all-sufficient necessary cause. Immanuel Kant causes principles god Notion without intuition is empty, intuition without notion is blind. Immanuel Kant empty intuition blind Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts). Immanuel Kant spring science knowledge The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth. Immanuel Kant flower doe science Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another. Immanuel Kant progress practice order But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows. Immanuel Kant enlightened not-afraid shadow Riches ennoble a man's circumstances, but not himself. Immanuel Kant riches circumstances men Men will not understand ... that when they fulfil their duties to men, they fulfil thereby God's commandments; that they are consequently always in the service of God, as long as their actions are moral, and that it is absolutely impossible to serve God otherwise. Immanuel Kant action men long The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason. Immanuel Kant business giving philosophy I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy. Immanuel Kant remembrance philosophy years Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished. Immanuel Kant standing army Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions. Immanuel Kant words-of-wisdom intuition space Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress. Immanuel Kant nature dark character Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. Immanuel Kant hell self way
