10 Immanuel Kant Quotes on Knowledge

Immanuel Kant quotes on knowledge

22. There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. (B 1)

27. Human reason is by nature architectonic. (B 502)

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

29. All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? (B 832-833)

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

46. Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

55. Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.

59. Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

66. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

68. The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

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