From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTFrom the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
IMMANUEL KANTOne who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANTThoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
IMMANUEL KANTHe who would know the world must first manufacture it.
IMMANUEL KANTIf God should really speak to man, man could still never know that it was God speaking.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter and I will build a world out of it.
IMMANUEL KANTGive me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
IMMANUEL KANTDare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
IMMANUEL KANTExperience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
IMMANUEL KANTBeauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
IMMANUEL KANTAll our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
IMMANUEL KANTNature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
IMMANUEL KANTInnocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
IMMANUEL KANTThe history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
IMMANUEL KANT