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Immanuel Kant
German
Philosopher
Born:
Apr 22
,
1724
Died:
Feb 12
,
1804
Experience
Knowledge
Law
Made
Man
Nothing
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Arthur Schopenhauer
Friedrich Nietzsche
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Karl Marx
Martin Heidegger
Meister Eckhart
Oswald Spengler
Theodor W. Adorno
He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Heart
Judge
Pet
Men
Animals
Cruel
He
Also
Becomes
His
Hard
Who
Treatment
In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Rights
Law
Ethics
Others
Guilty
Only
He
Doing
Violates
Thinks
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant
Thoughts
Concepts
Blind
Content
Empty
Without
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Dignity
Lie
His
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness
Happy
Ourselves
Worthy
Morality
Doctrine
Make
How
May
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
Immanuel Kant
Knowledge
Experience
Doubt
Our
Beyond
Begins
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant
Knowledge
Understanding
Nothing
Our
Higher
Than
Begins
Ends
Senses
Proceeds
Then
Reason
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness
Imagination
Ideal
Reason
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Immanuel Kant
Experience
Mere
Blind
Without
Intellectual
Theory
Play
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Immanuel Kant
Recognize
Individuals
Always
End
Human
Ends
Them
Means
Use
Your
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
Few
Favor
Seek
Lawful
Voices
Seldom
Weigh
Got
Testimony
Them
Means
Multitude
Number
Honest
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
Immanuel Kant
Guidance
Intelligence
Immaturity
Another
Without
Incapacity
Use
It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.
Immanuel Kant
Long
Live
Whilst
Happily
Should
Necessary
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Life
You
Law
Become
Live
Were
Maxim
May
Your
Actions
Universal
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
Immanuel Kant
Essence
Ingratitude
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
Immanuel Kant
War
Will
Evil
Philosophers
Bad
More
Said
Praise
Begets
Greek
Than
Forgetting
Mankind
Who
Even
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant
Good
Good And Evil
Evil
Those
Latter
Object
Objects
Only
Also
Practical
Principle
According
Former
Meant
Reason
Therefore
Shunned
Necessarily
Desired
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
Religion
Our
Recognition
Divine
Commands
Duties
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?
Immanuel Kant
Hope
Three
Ought
Following
Combine
Know
Practical
Well
Questions
May
Interests
Reason
Speculative
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
World
Law
Made
Action
Principle
Safely
Might
Act
Your
Whole
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
Happiness
God
Be Happy
Happy
Will
Ourselves
Merely
Make
Should
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant
Man
Made
Nothing
Out
Carved
Crooked
Entirely
Timber
Which
Straight
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.
Immanuel Kant
Thought
Other
Relate
Way
Characters
Must
Object
Given
Directly
Indirectly
Because
Ultimately
Sensibility
Us
Certain
Therefore
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Immanuel Kant
Knowledge
Our
Way
Neither
Corresponding
Intuition
Constitute
Some
Concepts
Without
Nor
Yield
Them
Elements
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant
Hope
Ought
Know
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