99 famous quotes from Kant's philosophy

Kant is one of the most influential thinkers in modern Europe and the last major philosopher of the Enlightenment. The following are Kant’s philosophical quotes that I have compiled for you. I hope you like them!

1. There are two things. The more I think about them and the longer I think about them, the more they fill me. The sense of wonder and solemnity that is always new and growing every moment is the starry sky above my head and the moral law in my heart.

2. Be as happy in old age as you were in youth! Youth is like a lark, with its morning song; old age, like a nightingale, should have its nocturne.

3. There are two things. The longer we think about it, the more we are filled with admiration and awe for it: the starry sky above our heads and the moral law in our hearts.

4. The so-called religion is to regard all our obligations as God’s commands

5. Being angry is to punish yourself with the mistakes of others.

6. Beauty is a symbol of moral goodness.

7. Pain is being forced to leave the place

8. The busier we are, the more strongly we feel that we are alive and the more aware we are of the existence of our lives.

9. Conscience is the instinct to judge oneself according to moral principles. It is not just an ability; it is an instinct.

10. The more deliberately a person wants to obtain comfort and happiness in life, the less likely this person will be to be truly satisfied.

11. The so-called religion means that all our obligations must be regarded as God’s commands.

12. Anyone who can only be happy according to the choices of others deserves to feel unhappy. Because, how can he guarantee that his powerful neighbor's judgment on choice will be consistent with his own judgment?

13. Morality is first required to control oneself

< p> 14. The one who is superior to me is the bright starry sky; the moral law is in my heart.

15. As long as you do your duty, people will respect you sincerely.

16. Whoever does not immediately feel disgusted when encountering immoral things, and does not immediately feel joy when encountering good things, has no sense of morality, and such a person has no conscience. Anyone who does something immoral and is only afraid of being punished, who does not blame himself for his bad behavior, but is frightened by the thought of painful consequences, has no conscience, but only the appearance of conscience. However, anyone who is aware of the immorality of the act itself, regardless of the consequences, has a conscience.

17. If you try your best and still get nothing, all that is left is good will. Just like a sleeping gem, it will emit dazzling light and have value within itself. .

18. All our knowledge begins with sensibility, then enters intelligence, and finally ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

19. Having a direct interest in natural beauty is always a sign of kindness.

20. To judge beauty, one must have a cultivated mind.

21. This awe-inspiring concept of "personality" makes us notice that our behavior does not conform to it, and thus dampens our self-esteem. At the same time, it makes us We clearly perceive the sublimity of our nature; this idea is natural and obvious even in the most ordinary aspects of human reason. Anyone who knows a little bit of shame will sometimes find that he can tell a harmless lie to get rid of some disgusting behavior. Or even to seek some benefit for his lovely and respectable friend, but he just because he was afraid of secretly despising him, and never lied after all? An upright person could have escaped from a certain misery as long as he abandoned his duties, and the reason why he could spare no effort , persist in it, not because he realizes that in this way he can set an example, maintain human dignity, and respect it.

22. Honesty is better than all wisdom, and it is the basic condition for wisdom.

23. People, in fact, all rational beings, exist because they are an end in themselves, not just tools for this or that will.

24. There are two kinds of things in the world. There are two things that can shock people's hearts: one is the lofty moral standards in our hearts; the other is the brilliant starry sky above our heads.

25. The two most sacred, enduring and ever-changing things, the two things that most surprise and shock us, are the stars in the sky and the moral law in our hearts.

26. Reason holds its own principles in one hand, studies and experiments based on that principle in the other, and goes to nature.

27. The things that can enrich my soul are the sky with twinkling stars and the moral law in my heart.

28. Genius is a person who creates his own rules.

29. Morality is indeed not a dogma that guides people on how to make themselves happy, but a doctrine that guides people on how to deserve happiness.

　30.Only two things in this world so that our souls are deeply shocked First, our brilliant stars overhead, First, our hearts lofty moral laws. One is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the lofty moral laws in our hearts. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason"

31. Three things help relieve the fatigue of life: hope, smile and sleep.

32. Only when two people give themselves completely to each other, rather than just handing over the use of their sexual abilities to each other, sexual behavior is not objectified. Only when partners share with each other the good and bad and all aspects of who they are, body and soul, can their sexual behavior lead to a human union.

33. Shyness is some secret of nature, used to restrain indulgent desires; it obeys the call of nature, but is always in harmony with goodness and virtue.

34. People have two kinds of awe, one is the infinite starry sky above their heads, and the other is the infinite thoughts in their hearts.

35. These commands either stipulate the conditions of the causality of rational beings as operative causes, taking into account only the effect and its sufficiency, or they stipulate only the will, regardless of Is it enough to achieve the effect. The former will be hypothetical imperatives and contain only skillful norms; whereas the latter will be categorical and will be the only practical law. Therefore, although maxims are some principles, they are not commands. However, if the commands themselves are conditional, that is, if they do not stipulate the will absolutely as a will, but only stipulate it with a certain desired result in mind, that is, If they are just hypothetical commands, then although they are practical norms, they are by no means practical laws. Source: "Critique of Practical Reason"

36. There is only one thing we know for sure, and that is that we will eventually die. ?As death seems to be the experience gained from seeing other things die. However, this proposition is indeed a necessary proposition. However, some people may say that there is no such thing as whether people like Enoch exist, so after all, this is still a so-called "no exception has been found" empirical judgment. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

37. A person's shortcomings come from his era, but his virtue and greatness belong to himself.

38. Greed is the endless desire in the human heart for the outside world.

39. As for the great success of logic, it has such advantages only because of its own limitations, which give it the right and even the obligation to take away all knowledge. object and distinction, in which the understanding has nothing to do with anything but itself and its form. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

40. The true path of metaphysics is not to deal with the messy and boundless empirical objects, but to start from reason itself, and have a dialogue with reason itself. This is the foundation of metaphysics and cannot be uprooted.

Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

41. The relationship between treating it as true, or the subjective validity of a judgment, lies in belief (it is also objectively valid), and there are the following three levels: opinion, Belief and knowledge. An opinion is a belief that is perceived as true that is both subjectively and objectively inadequate. If it is only subjectively sufficient to be true but is seen to be objectively insufficient, then it is called a belief. Finally, that which is regarded as true, both subjectively and objectively sufficient, is called knowledge. One of the joys of reading is discovering that you occasionally think side by side with some of the greatest thinkers of all time. I had thought about the importance of knowledge and opinions long before I read Chunbiao... Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

42. There are only two things in the world that are worthy of our deep admiration. One is our head. The brilliant starry sky above, and the other is the lofty moral law in our hearts.

43. Men are easy to be investigated, but women do not reveal their secrets. Source: "Anthropology"

44. There are two things that can touch people's hearts. One is the brilliant starry sky above our heads, and the other is the lofty moral principles in our hearts.

45. Beauty is Moral symbol.

46. Enlightenment is when a person emerges from a state of guardianship that he has brought upon himself. A warded state is a state in which one cannot use one's own reason without the guidance of others. If this state of guardianship is due not to a lack of reason but to a lack of determination and courage to use one's reason without the guidance of others, it is self-inflicted. Therefore, Sapere aude [dare to know]! Have the courage to use your own reason!

47. Time is an indispensable representation as the basis of all intuition. Although people can completely remove appearances from time, time itself cannot be eliminated as far as general appearances are concerned. Therefore, time is given a priori. Only in time is all reality of appearance possible. All these appearances can be eliminated, but time itself (as the universal condition of the possibility of appearances) cannot be abolished. Source: "Critique of Pure Reason"

48.? Critique of Judgment? The question to be answered is: What hope can we have? The answer Kant gave is: If we want to be truly moral, I would have to assume that God exists and that not everything is over when life is over. In "Critique of Judgment", Kant is also concerned about the purpose, significance and mode of action of human spiritual activities, including people's aesthetic appreciation ability and fantasy ability. Source: "Critique of Judgment"

49. Man is the ultimate goal of creation in the world, because man is the only unique existence in the world that can form the concept of purpose and can draw from a large number of purposeful concepts. And among the things formed, with the help of his reason, a system of purpose is formed

50. Freedom is not to do whatever you want, but to not do anything if you don’t want to do it

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 to disgust people, but what is far from sublime is to make people disgusted. 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 made things out of nothing. Kant's purpose was to clarify the scope, rules, and boundaries of rationality and put metaphysics on a reliable path. Is Husserl's phenomenology a further advancement? 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, it should be satisfied; if there is a reason not to agree to such a request, then 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 unique 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, what it contains, that is, it exists completely a priori and independently of empirical principles. , and secondly indicate where 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 constantly renewed and growing 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 not 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 of mere concepts (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 the other sciences, and even if the other sciences are all 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" ;