Immanuel Kant Quotes About Representation

Quotes about: Representation

• Natural science physics contains in itself synthetical judgments a priori, as principles. ... Space then is a necessary representation a priori, which serves for the foundation of all external intuitions.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Words Of Wisdom, Intuition

• Time is not an empirical concept. For neither co-existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation a priori.

  Immanuel Kant

  Words Of Wisdom, Foundation, Would Be

• Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum.

  Immanuel Kant

  Data, Space, Words Of Wisdom

• Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind.

  Immanuel Kant

  Determination, Law, Hands

• Art does not want the representation of a beautiful thing, but the representation of something beautiful.

  Immanuel Kant

  Beautiful, Art, Doe

• Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

  Immanuel Kant

  Spring, Knowledge, Science

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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