Immanuel Kant Quotes

That which exercises reason is more excellent than that which does not exercise reason

This then is the age of reason.

The very essence of rationalism is that it assumes that the reason is the highest faculty in man and the lord of all the rest.

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

A form of reason that in some way wished to strip itself of beauty would be diminished; it would be a blinded reason.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

Whatever else we may say of our own age, for good or evil, nobody is likely to call it an Age of Reason.

He that cannot reason is a fool.

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

Fear is bred from ignorance. So knowledge is a weapon against it, and reason is the tool of knowledge.

If you see a philosopher determining all things by means of right reason, him you shall reverence: he is a heavenly being and not of this earth.

The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

Rightly defined philosophy is simply the love of wisdom.

The only hope I can see for the future depends on a wiser and braver use of the reason, not a panic flight from it.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

Everything must justify its existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.

Faith is a poison that paralyzes the mind. In all the days of your life, seek knowledge!

Ability to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false, is the characteristic of intelligence.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing.