Immanuel Kant Quotes

Metaphysics is a science.

Metaphysics means nothing but an unusually obstinate effort to think clearly.

It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.

Philosophy: Unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy … consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze. But the book cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and read the letters in which it is composed.

Metaphysics is the science of proving what we don't understand.

What I am trying to do is to unmuddle the metaphysical.

I secretly think reality exists so we can speculate about it.

Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.

I am now convinced that theoretical physics is actually philosophy.

I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Philosophy changes day by day.

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.

Philosophy: A route of many roads leading from nowhere to nothing.

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that.

You can't do without philosophy, since everything has its hidden meaning which we must know.

It is a mania shared by philosophers of all ages to deny what exists and to explain what does not exist.

About no subject is there less philosophizing than about philosophy.

Philosophy teaches you to think big.

Philosophy! the lumber of the schools.

I stick my finger into existence.. it smells of nothing. Where am I? Who am I? What is this thing called the world? What does this word mean?

Philosophy is by its nature something esoteric, neither made for the mob nor capable of being prepared for the mob.

Whence? wither? why? how? - these questions cover all philosophy.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science, or complement of sciences, exclusively occupied with mind.