black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

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

Immanuel Kant

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.
IMMANUEL KANT

Animal Heart Himself Judgement Man
Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
IMMANUEL KANT

Independent Man Understand
The outcome of an act commonly influences our judgment about its rightness, even though the former was uncertain, while the latter is certain.
IMMANUEL KANT

Act Judgement Life Result
Freedom is the opposite of necessity.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom Necessary
Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANT

Break Up End People
But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
IMMANUEL KANT

Afraid Darkness Himself Philosophy
Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
IMMANUEL KANT

Discipline Himself Man Nature Wild
The greatest human quest is to know what one must do in order to become a human being.
IMMANUEL KANT

Greatness Human Philosophy
Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
IMMANUEL KANT

Material Science World
Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANT

Goodness Possible Willing World
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
IMMANUEL KANT

Happiness Ideas Imagination Reason
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
IMMANUEL KANT

Education Hope Lie Perfection
Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
IMMANUEL KANT

Freedom Human Right
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANT

Action Secret Spring
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality.
IMMANUEL KANT

Experience Mindset Reality Space Time
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beyond Doubt Experience Knowledge
War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
IMMANUEL KANT

Human Inspirational Love Man War
Better the whole people perish than that injustice be done.
IMMANUEL KANT

Justice People
By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANT

Dignity Lie Man
To be is to do.
IMMANUEL KANT

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

End Knowledge Ourselves Reason Understand
But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beginning Experience Knowledge
One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
IMMANUEL KANT

Himself Oneself People Worth
Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beautiful See
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.
IMMANUEL KANT

Beautiful Present Reason Understand
Woman wants control, man self-control.
IMMANUEL KANT

Control Man One Liner Woman
Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.
IMMANUEL KANT

Philosophy Spiritual

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

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

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Immanuel Kant Quotes