Immanuel Kant Quotes About Character

Quotes about: Character

• 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.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Honesty, Integrity

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

• Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Character, Dark

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.27

• Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

  Immanuel Kant

  Teacher, Character, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.21, Read Books Ltd

• If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Science, Men

• 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

  Character, Thinking, Intuition

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.46, Read Books Ltd

• In the mere concept of one thing it cannot be found any character of its existence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Character, Found, Existence

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