Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person.
IMMANUEL KANTBut although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
More Immanuel Kant Quotes
-
-
Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.
IMMANUEL KANT -
From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
IMMANUEL KANT -
It is not without cause that men feel the burden of their existence, though they are themselves the cause of those burdens.
IMMANUEL KANT -
In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The cultivation of reason leads humanity sooner to misery than happiness.
IMMANUEL KANT -
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first.
IMMANUEL KANT -
Innocence is a splendid thing, only it has the misfortune not to keep very well and to be easily misled.
IMMANUEL KANT -
The hand is the visible part of the brain.
IMMANUEL KANT