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“There can be no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.”

Quote by Immanuel Kant

Book:Critique of pure reason

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Critique of pure reason

Immanuel Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' delves into the limits and possibilities of human understanding, examining the nature of space, time, and causality, and the role of intuition and concepts in shaping our experience of the world. more

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German philosopher, an important representative of the Enlightenment movement, and the founder of the Kantian philosophical system. His thoughts have had a profound impact on the fields of philosophy, ethics, political science, and others. more

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“Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.”

Doe Reason Use Purpose Order Natural Levels Practice Progress Creatures Limits Projects Instinct Insight Trials Acknowledge Faculty Instruction Natural Instinct

Book:Philosophical writings

Source: Philosophical writings

“I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself.”

Book:Critique of pure reason

Source: Critique of pure reason

“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.”

Ifs Men Believe Doe Lying Dignity Mere Appearance Deceptive

Author:Immanuel Kant

“Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor!”

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“Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law.”

Law Duty Reverence

Book:Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

Source: Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals

“Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.”

Book:Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)

“A society that is not willing to demand a life of somebody who has taken somebody else’s life is simply immoral.”

Life Is Taken Willing Demand Immoral

Author:Immanuel Kant

“All our knowledge begins with the senses...”

Reason Knowledge Senses Knowledge And Ignorance Categorical Imperative

Author:Immanuel Kant

“If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.”

Ifs Dies Justice Cases Crime Murder Committed Miserable Substitutes Parallels Retribution Offenders Perpetrators Miserable Life

Author:Immanuel Kant

“I wasn't always smart, I was actually very stupid in school [T]here was a boy who was very attractive who was even stupider than I was. And in order to ingratiate myself with this boy who was very beautiful, I began to do his homework for him – and that's how I became smart, I had to do all this work to just keep ahead of him a little bit, in order to help him. In a sense, all the rest of my life I've been trying to do intellectual things that would attract beautiful boys.”

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Author:Michel Foucault