4 Immanuel Kant Quotes on Cognition

Immanuel Kant quotes on cognition

24. Thoughts without intuitions are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. (B 75)

28. Thus all human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas. (B 730)

39. 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.

64. Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight to another.