{"author":"Immanuel Kant","author_id":"Immanuel+Kant","total_quotes":132,"quotes":[{"text":"...New prejudices will serve as well as old ones to harness the great unthinking masses.For this enlightenment, however, nothing is required but freedom, and indeed the most harmless among all the things to which this term can properly be applied. It is the freedom to make public use of one's reason at every point. But I hear on all sides, 'Do not argue!' The Officer says: 'Do not argue but drill!' The tax collector: 'Do not argue but pay!' The cleric: 'Do not argue but believe!' Only one prince in the world says, 'Argue as much as you will, and about what you will, but obey!' Everywhere there is restriction on freedom.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["cleric","enlightenment","freedom","prejudices","reason","unthinking"],"id":3355,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"...Reason should take on anew the most difficult of all its tasks, namely, that of self-knowledge, and to institute a court of justice, by which reason may secure its rightful claims while dismissing all its groundless pretensions, and this not by mere decrees but according to its own eternal and unchangeable laws; and this court is none other than the critique of pure reason itself.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["critique","illusion","knowledge","limits","reason","self-knowledge"],"id":4072,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"[At the beginning of modern science], a light dawned on all those who study nature. They comprehended that reason has insight only into what it itself produces according to its own design; that it must take the lead with principles for its judgments according to constant laws and compel nature to answer its questions, rather than letting nature guide its movements by keeping reason, as it were, in leading-strings; for otherwise accidental observations, made according to no previously designed plan, can never connect up into a necessary law, which is yet what reason seeks and requires. Reason, in order to be taught by nature, must approach nature with its principles in one hand, according to which alone the agreement among appearances can count as laws, and, in the other hand, the experiments thought in accordance with these principles - yet in order to be instructed by nature not like a pupil, who has recited to him whatever the teacher wants to say, but like an appointed judge who compels witnesses to answer the questions he puts to them. Thus even physics owes the advantageous revolution in its way of thinking to the inspiration that what reason would not be able to know of itself and has to learn from nature, it has to seek in the latter (though not merely ascribe to it) in accordance with what reason itself puts into nature. This is how natural science was first brought to the secure course of a science after groping about for so many centuries.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["constructivism","critical-turn","empiricism","experiment","laws","modern-science","nature","necessity","philosophy","physics","rational-principles","reason","science","system","understanding"],"id":6179,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Imitation finds no place at all in morality, and examples serve only for encouragement, that is, they put beyond doubt the feasibility of what the law commands, they make visible that which the practical rule expresses more generally, but they can never authorize us to set aside the true original which lies in reason, and to guide ourselves by examples.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["absolute-truth","conversion","miracles"],"id":7025,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["life-lessons"],"id":8128,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["philosophy"],"id":10121,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"The death of dogma is the birth of reality.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["creating","positive","change"],"id":13094,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["empiricism","knowledge","rationalism","reason","senses","understanding"],"id":13381,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["life","sucker"],"id":18561,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"},{"text":"But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience.","author":"Immanuel Kant","tags":["epistemology","experience","knowledge"],"id":22056,"author_id":"Immanuel+Kant"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":132,"pages":14,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}