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Quotes from Critique of Pure Reason — Immanuel Kant

1724–1804 Germany

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That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.

Critique of Pure Reason (1781)

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience.

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But though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows, that all arises out of experience.

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Metaphysics has as the proper object of its enquiries three ideas only: God, freedom, and immortality.

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All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience.

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For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

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It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.

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

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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Psychologists have hitherto failed to realize that imagination is a necessary ingredient of perception itself.

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I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.

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It is therefore correct to say that the senses do not err — not because they always judge rightly, but because they do not judge at all.

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The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space.

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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their unison can knowledge arise.

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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.

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Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

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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?

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This proof can at most, therefore, demonstrate the existence of an architect of the world, whose efforts are limited by the capabilities of the material with which he works, but not of a creator of the world, to whom all things are subject.

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