Immanuel Kant Quotes About Understanding

Quotes about: Understanding

• Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Motivational, Success

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Understanding, Perception

  "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).

• I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within me. She opened my heart to the lasting impressions of nature; she awakened my understanding and extended my horizon and her percepts exerted an everlasting influence upon the course of my life.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mom, Mother, Heart

• The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding.

  Immanuel Kant

  Plato, Cutting, Light

  Immanuel Kant, Paul Guyer (1998). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.129, Cambridge University Press

• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Lying, Men

• Aristotle can be regarded as the father of logic. But his logic is too scholastic, full of subtleties, and fundamentally has not been of much value to the human understanding. It is a dialectic and an organon for the art of disputation.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Father, Understanding

  Immanuel Kant, J. Michael Young (2004). “Lectures on Logic”, p.257, Cambridge University Press

• The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Play, Imagination

  Immanuel Kant (2013). “Kant's Critiques”, p.691, Simon and Schuster

• The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Numbers, Vanity

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Science, Thinking

  Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

• The schematicism by which our understanding deals with the phenomenal world ... is a skill so deeply hidden in the human soul that we shall hardly guess the secret trick that Nature here employs.

  Immanuel Kant

  Skills, Understanding, Soul

• Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Understanding, Sublime, Reason

• Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of the Enlightenment.

  Immanuel Kant

  Knowledge, Men, Self

• A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being.

  Immanuel Kant

  Space, Understanding, Fields

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