Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App

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

Related Quotes:

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

" 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. "

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

" If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. "

" 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. "

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

" In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. "

" To be is to do. "

" All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. "

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

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

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

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

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

" 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.' "

" 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. "

" From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. "

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

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

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

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

" Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

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

" May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. "

" 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. "

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