Author of quotes: Immanuel Kant. Page 1

As for those who, not being able to contemplate everything as a whole, are chained to this or that little thing and do not think about whether the censure that this little thing may deserve, also the significance of the whole, or about whether Whether improvements in individual parts retain the basic plan, which suffers from flaws only in details, then this kind of people, always striving only to turn every building that has been started into ruins, can, it is true, inspire fear with their multiplicity, but their judgment about its true value has little meaning for reasonable people.

The law living in us is called conscience. Conscience is, in fact, the application of our actions to this law.

Can't stand seeing his opponents - Reid, Oswald, Beattie and finally Priestley - absolutely did not touch the essence of his problems and how they are constantly taking recognized just what he doubted, with fever and often with great indiscretion proved something to doubt him in the head did not come.

Can't stand seeing his opponents - Reid, Oswald, Beattie and finally Priestley - absolutely did not touch the essence of his problems and how they are constantly taking recognized just what he doubted, with fever and often with great indiscretion proved something to doubt him in the head did not come.

Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so the majority of people whom nature has long freed from alien guidance, nevertheless gladly remain minors all his life; for the same reason others so easily arrogate to themselves the right to be their guardians.

The ability to put reasonable questions have already been important and necessary a sign of intelligence or insight. If the question itself is meaningless and useless demands answers, but shame for the Enquirer he has sometimes the disadvantage that inadvertently encourages the listener to absurd answers, and creates a ridiculous spectacle: one (according to the ancients) is milking a goat while another holds a sieve underneath.

Think - means talking with himself.

The mind is the ability that gives us a principles of a priori knowledge. Therefore, we call the pure reason, containing the principles of course prior knowledge.

We will call a priori knowledge, of course independent of any experience. These mathematical concepts are always a priori and not empirical judgments.

Passion to expand knowledge, passionate about proof of the power of the mind knows no boundaries.

The inevitable problems of pure reason are God, freedom and immortality.

Experience never gives its judgments true or strict universality.

No doubt all our knowledge begins with experience.

Significant, and can be the largest part of the activities of our mind consists in dismembering the notions that we have about objects.