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.

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

An absolute can only be given in an intuition, while all the rest has to do with analysis.

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Scientia is knowledge. It is only in the popular mind that it is equated with facts.

All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

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.

Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge perceptible by sense?

A concept is stronger than a fact.

Human knowledge is dark and uncertain; philosophy is dark, astrology is dark, and geometry is dark.

Belief and knowledge are considered to be two different things. But they are not.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

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

Knowledge is justified belief.

Imagination is a powerful force underlying all knowing

An image is a stop the mind makes between uncertainties.

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.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

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

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

The man of science is a poor philosopher.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

Knowledge, may it be said, is higher than magic and is more to be sought. It is quite possible to see what is happening and yet not know what is forward, for while seeing is believing, it does not follow that either seeing or believing is knowing.