Immanuel Kant Quotes

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.

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

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

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Knowledge is love and light and vision.

It's very hard to know what wisdom is.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Only the dreamer shall understand realities, though in truth his dreaming must be not out of proportion to his waking.

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.

What is your aim in philosophy? To show the fly the way out of the fly-bottle.

Knowledge goes hand and hand with truth.

Some like to understand what they believe in. Others like to believe in what they understand.

Seek wisdom, not knowledge. Knowledge is of the past, Wisdom is of the future.

The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend

Since a thing cannot be known directly or totally, one can only attune to it, with greater or lesser degrees of intimacy.

Insight essentially means being able to see things other people are not able to see. This is the hallmark of leadership.

Did they know why they knew? Not at all. But the Knew!

Insight is not a matter of memory, of knowledge and time, which are all thought.

Was not this ... what we spoke of as the great advantage of wisdom -- to know what is known and what is unknown to us?

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Wise it is to comprehend the whole.

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

When old people speak it is not because of the sweetness of words in our mouths; it is because we see something which you do not see.

A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true, for if the things be false, the apprehension of them is not understanding.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.