Immanuel Kant Quotes

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

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

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.

All our knowledge begins with the senses...

Nothing can be found in the intellect if previously has not been found in the senses.

Natural objects, for example, must be experienced before any theorizing about them can occur.

Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced.

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 falls with the bounds of experience.

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

There is no perfect knowledge which can be entitled ours, that is innate; none but what has been obtained from experience, or derived in some way from our senses.

I bought some books in order to learn the first principles of philosophy.

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

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

The fundament upon which all our knowledge and learning rests is the inexplicable.

I discovered philosophy in my youth when I read 'wildly,' and thus I was exposed to the world of ideas.

Let us come to the philosophers, whose authority is of greater weight, and their judgment more to be relied on, because they are believed to have paid attention, not to matters of fiction, but to the investigation of the truth.

The fundamental proposition of the apriorist theory is that knowledge is made up of two sorts of elements, which cannot be reduced into one another, and which are like two distinct layers superimposed one upon the other.

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

To me, what philosophy does best is reflect on knowledge that's generated in other areas.

Since Plato, we have been considering the nature of knowledge, the meaning of meaning and the status of the physical world.

All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions.

There is a tradition of opposition between adherents of induction and of deduction. In my view it would be just as sensible for the two ends of a worm to quarrel.

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.

The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.