Religion is too important a matter to its devotees to be a subject of ridicule. If they indulge in absurdities, they are to be pitied rather than ridiculed. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori. Immanuel Kant philosophy science knowledge The possession of power inevitably spoils the free use of reason. Immanuel Kant political power use There will always be some people who think for themselves, even among the self-appointed guardians of the great mass who, after having thrown off the yoke of immaturity themselves, will spread about them the spirit of a reasonable estimate of their own value and of the need for every man to think for himself. Immanuel Kant self men thinking Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. Immanuel Kant names giving thinking If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death. Immanuel Kant miserable murder justice Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another, and in so far as it tends to exist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity. Immanuel Kant 4th-of-july freedom men If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment. Immanuel Kant human-nature exercise may Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within. Immanuel Kant law two science Human reason is by nature architectonic. Immanuel Kant nature humans reason Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it! Immanuel Kant giving science world Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. Immanuel Kant construction philosophical reason Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation. Immanuel Kant understanding father art God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system. Immanuel Kant fashion nature art Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence. Immanuel Kant rights secret giving The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience Immanuel Kant example math science 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 three may philosophy Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future. Immanuel Kant parent giving children Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person's freedom. Immanuel Kant freedom humanity men Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself. Immanuel Kant ingredients perception imagination The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about a political constitution, internally, and for this purpose, also externally perfect, as the only state in which all the capacities implanted by her in mankind can be fully developed. Immanuel Kant political race perfect
