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" 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. "

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" All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. "

Immanuel Kant

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

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

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

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

Immanuel Kant

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Knowledge

" Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me. "

" Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. "

" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "

" By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. "

" 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? "

" Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. "

" Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. "

" It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. "

" Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. "

" Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "

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

" What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope? "

" Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. "

" The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. "

" So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "

" Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. "

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. "

Immanuel Kant

Ingratitude

Essence

" A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. "

" Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. "