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Critique of Pure Reason quotes

Immanuel Kant

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“Human reason is by nature architectonic.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“All our knowledge begins with sense, proceeds thence to understanding, and ends with reason, beyond which nothing higher can be discovered in the human mind for elaborating the matter of intuition and subjecting it to the highest unity of thought.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Criticism alone can strike a blow at the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which are universally injurious—as well as of idealism and scepticism, which are dangerous to the schools, but can...” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Human reason, in one sphere of its cognition, is called upon to consider questions, which it cannot decline, as they are presented by its own nature, but which it cannot answer, as they transcend every faculty of the mind.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“But a thought must directly, or indirectly, by means of certain signs, relate ultimately to intuitions; consequently, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“If the intuition must conform to the nature of the objects, I do not see how we can know anything of them a priori. If, on the other hand, the object conforms to the nature of our faculty of intuition, I can then easily conceive the possibility...” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Our age is the age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds of exemption from the examination of this tribunal.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Deficiency in judgement is properly that which is called stupidity; and for such a failing we know no remedy.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“But, above all, it will confer an inestimable benefit on morality and religion, by showing that all the objections urged against them may be silenced for ever by the Socratic method, that is to say, by proving the ignorance of the objector.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“But neither do these come within the compass of our mental powers; and it was the duty of philosophy to destroy the illusions which had their origin in misconceptions, whatever darling hopes and valued expectations may be ruined by its explanations.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Intuition and conceptions constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither conceptions without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without conceptions, can afford us a cognition.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason
“Thus all human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.” Immanuel Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

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