Kant Quotes

You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else.

Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the absolute Self. To it the first is only preparatory. This second aspect is the one which from Kant, until the present time, has formed the deeper problem of thought.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.

The 'I think' which Kant said must be able to accompany all my objects, is the 'I breathe' which actually does accompany them.

Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try to introduce the concept of the positive into philosophy?

Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much.

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else.

The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant.

No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought.

The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning point in the history of philosophy.