99 famous quotes from Kant's philosophy

51. The principle of morality must be a categorical imperative. Source: "The Foundation of the Metaphysics of Morality"

52. The most taboo thing about beauty is making people disgusted, and what is far from sublime is making people laugh. Therefore, the most painful thing for a man is when you call him incompetent, and the most painful thing for a woman is when you call her ugly. Source: "Discourse on Beauty and Sublimity"

53. All knowledge starts from experience, but it does not mean that it is empirical knowledge that originates from experience. It is the impression we receive and our inherent understanding. A compound of abilities. Innate knowledge: does not depend on experience, does not depend on experience at all, that is, the so-called "pure". Most of the previous metaphysics was dogmatic and created something out of nothing. Kant's purpose was to clarify the scope, rules, and boundaries of rationality and put metaphysics on a reliable path. Husserl's phenomenology is a further advancement, right? Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

54. There are two things that the more I think about, the more shocking and awe I feel, and that is the starry sky above my head and my moral code. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason"

55. Thought without content is empty, intuition without concepts is blind. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

56. Intuition is the formal characteristic of the subject in the subject. The subject is stimulated by the object and thus obtains the direct representation given by the object. This is also "intuition", that is, General form of external senses. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

57.Freedom is not letting you do whatever you wanna but teaching you not to do the things you don't wanna do. Freedom is not letting you do whatever you wanna but teaching you not to do the things you don't wanna do. , freedom is to teach you not to do anything you don’t want to do.

58. The ability (receptive ability) to obtain representations through the way we are stimulated by objects is called perceptibility. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

59. If there is no sufficient reason to refuse a child's request, he should be satisfied; if there is a reason not to agree to such a request, he should not be allowed to cheat. . Once you say no, don't change.

60. Give me matter and I will use it to create a universe.

61. The most wonderful thing in the world is the brilliant starry sky above my head and the moral principles in my heart.

62. Self-discipline of the will is the only basis for all moral laws and obligations consistent with them. Source of principle: "Critique of Practical Reason"

63. In the process of human understanding of nature, it is not things that influence people, but people that influence things. It is us people who construct the real world. In the process of understanding things, people are more important than the things themselves. In fact, it is impossible for us to realize the true nature of things. We can only understand the appearance of things. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

64. The infinity of time means nothing more than: all determined lengths of time are possible only through the limitation of a single time as the basis. Therefore, the original representation of time must be given without restriction. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

65. What a person says must be true, but he does not need to tell everything he knows.

66. Intellectuals are people who dare to use reason in all public occasions.

67. Because although one's own happiness is a goal that all people have (due to their natural impulses), this goal can never be regarded as an obligation without contradiction. What everyone inevitably and automatically wants does not belong to the concept of duty; for duty is a compulsion with an unwilling end. Therefore, it is self-contradictory to say that people have an obligation to do their best to promote their own happiness.

- Source: "Volume 6 of the Complete Works of Kant"

68. Although experience tells us that something is in such and such a state, it does not tell us that it cannot be in another state. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason" 》

69. Now that I have set foot on this road, nothing should prevent me from going along this road. Since I have already embarked on this path, then, nothing should prevent me to go down this road.

　70. The morality of an action does not depend on its result, but only on the reason behind the action. intention. Source: "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals"

71. Three things help ease the toil of life: hope, sleep and smile.

72. Living without a goal is like sailing without a compass.

73. When moral punishment is no longer effective, people resort to physical punishment, but good character cannot be cultivated through it. ?

74. Funny is a serious imbalance between expectations and consequences.

75. The exposition of the highest principle of practical change has now been made, that is to say, first of all, it has been pointed out what it contains, that is, it exists completely a priori and independently without relying on empirical principles. , and secondly indicate how it differs from all other practical principles. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason"

76. When love needs me, I am not qualified. When I need love, he leaves me.

77. Time is not An empirical concept abstracted from experience in some way. For if the representation of time were not grounded a priori , neither simultaneousness nor succession would even enter into perception. Only with the representation of time as a prerequisite can people represent: something exists in the same time (simultaneously) or in different times (successively). Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

78. There are two things in this world that make me awe when I think about them, and that is the starry sky above our heads and the moral law in our hearts.

79. If a person has no confidence, he doesn’t want to get up the next day.

80. There are two things. The more you meditate on them repeatedly and continuously, you will be filled with ever-newer and ever-increasing praise and awe, namely: the starry sky above your head and the morality in your heart. law. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason"

81. When parents educate their children, they usually just let them adapt to the current world? Even if it is a fallen world. This is a true portrayal of many parents in China. The continuation and survival of future generations has the significance of animal evolution, but as a human being, it would be too unhuman to only pursue this. Parents who have children only to enrich their slave masters are not worthy of saying they love their children.

82. The reason why the sea is great is that in addition to its beauty, magnificence, and magnanimity, it also has a self-purifying function.

83. The most wonderful thing in the world is the bright starry sky above my head and the moral code in my heart.

84. Beauty is a purposeless happiness

85. Philosophy cannot be taught, and philosophy is always the career of the thinker.

86. The duty of philosophy is to get rid of illusions caused by misunderstandings.

87. There is no doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience; because the cognitive ability is stimulated to act, if it is not due to the object exciting our senses, on the one hand, it creates the appearance by itself, On the other hand, what is the knowledge that sets our intellectual actions into motion, comparing these representations, joining or separating them, and thus processing the raw materials of sensible impressions into objects called experiences? Therefore, in time, we have no knowledge that precedes experience, and all knowledge begins with experience. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

88. One of the most complex tasks of education is to combine the compulsion to obey the law with educating children to be good at using their own free power.

As long as children do not do anything harmful to themselves or others, they should be allowed freedom of action and should not be forced to change their wishes. Let children understand that they can only achieve their own goals by providing others with the possibility to achieve their goals.

89. While the criticism of reason must ultimately lead to science, the uncritical dogmatic application of reason, on the contrary, can lead to unfounded claims that can be countered by equally obvious and diametrically opposed claims. , leading to skepticism. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

90. I am in awe of the starry sky above my head, but I am not interested in the morality in my heart

91. What I am in awe of is the starry sky above my head and the morality in my heart Source of Law: "Critique of Practical Reason"

92. There are only two things in this world that can cause deep shock to people's hearts. One is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the lofty morality in our hearts.

93. Time is not a reasoning concept, or what people call a universal concept, but a pure form of perceptual intuition. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

94. Wine can make people speak briskly, and wine can make people express their true feelings. Wine, therefore, has become a moral quality and a substance that carries a straightforward heart

95. Metaphysics is a completely isolated, speculative rational knowledge that completely transcends the teachings of experience. To be precise, it relies on (unlike mathematics, which relies on the application of concepts to intuition), so here reason itself is its own student; although metaphysics is older than all other sciences, and even if all other sciences are in a state of destruction swallowed up completely in the abyss of all barbarism, it will remain, but fortune has not hitherto favored it so much as to enable it to choose the sure path of a science. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

96.Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

97. Beauty is happiness without purpose.

98. The principle of self-discipline is the only moral principle. Source: "The Foundation of Moral Metaphysics"

99. There are only two things in the world that can deeply affect our hearts. The shock is, firstly, the vast and brilliant starry sky above our heads, and secondly, the lofty moral laws in our hearts. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason";