Immanuel Kant Quotes

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

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

All men naturally desire knowledge. An indication of this is our esteem for the senses; for apart from their use we esteem them for their own sake, and most of all the sense of sight. Not only with a view to action, but even when no action is contemplated, we prefer sight, generally speaking, to all the other senses. The reason of this is that of all the senses sight best helps us to know things, and reveals many distinctions.

Thinking does not lead to truth; truth is the beginning of thought.

Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

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.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

It's one thing thinking something and another thing knowing it.

Intuition is for thinking what observation is for perception. Intuition and observation are the sources of our knowledge.

The things best to know are first principles and causes, but these things are perhaps the most difficult for men to grasp, for they are farthest removed from the senses.

The objective world is the order of nature, thinking or reflection follows the suggestions of sense experience, and words are the servomechanisms of reflection.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Taking it in its wider and generic application, I understand faith to be the supplement of sense; or, to change the phrase, all knowledge which comes not to us through our senses we gain by faith in others.

Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

All of science to me, everything that we have learned, is important to the extent that it brings us to our senses.

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Just as our eyes need light in order to see, our minds need ideas in order to conceive.

Language is to the mind more than light is to the eye.

Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.