Immanuel Kant Quotes

Experience arises together with theoretical assumptions not before them, and an experience without theory is just as incomprehensible as is (allegedly) a theory without experience.

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

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

This actual world of what is knowable, in which we are and which is in us, remains both the material and the limit of our consideration.

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

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.

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

I think that reality exists and that it's knowable.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

Ultimately all knowing, from the highest to the lowest, is the result of experience; it arises on the way of experiences.

Intellectualism' is the belief that our mind comes upon a world complete in itself, and has the duty of ascertaining its contents; but has no power of re-determining its character, for that is already given.

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.

What we learn from experience depends on the kind of philosophy we bring to experience.

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

Is Knowledge knowable? If not, how do we know?

It's only when I say that everything is incomprehensible that I come as close as possible to understanding the only thing it is given to us to understand.

For it was not so much that by means of words I came to a complete understanding of things, as that from things I somehow had an experience which enabled me to follow the meaning of words.

What men have seen they know. . . .

The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.

Language is the mother of thought, not its handmaiden.

To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.