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Famous Immanuel Kant Quotes
Source: Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason
“Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.”
“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”
“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”
“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”
Source: Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
Source: Critique of pure reason
“Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.”
Source: The essential Kant
“Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.”
Source: Kant: Religion Within the Boundaries of Mere Reason: And Other Writings
“It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy”
Source: Notes and Fragments