Immanuel Kant Quotes About Nature

Quotes about: Nature

• Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder

  Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

• Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Law

  Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

• Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Fate, Peculiar

  Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

• God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

  Immanuel Kant

  Fashion, Art, Nature

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

• 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

• Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Powerful, Creating

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.685, Simon and Schuster

• Human reason is by nature architectonic.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Reason, Humans

  Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.297

• Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

• Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Law, Conformity

• It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

  Immanuel Kant

  Nature, Science, Unity

  Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

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