1665: Immanuel Kant’s Most Important Quotes on Cognition, Experience, Reason, and Autonomy
Author(s): Scott Douglas Jacobsen
Publication (Outlet/Website): Medium (Personal)
Publication Date (yyyy/mm/dd): 2026/03/24
“We only cognize in things a priori that which we ourselves place in them.”
“Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind.”
“The conditions of the possibility of experience in general, are at the same time conditions of the possibility of the objects of experience.”
“The understanding does not derive its laws (a priori) from, but prescribes them to, nature.”
“It must be possible for the ‘I think’ to accompany all my representations.”
“The world of sense contains merely appearances, which are not things in themselves.”
“By a system I mean the unity of various cognitions under one idea.”
“All pure cognitions of the understanding have this feature, that their concepts present themselves in experience.”
“It is a humiliating consideration for human reason, that it is incompetent to discover truth by means of pure speculation.”
“Autonomy of the will is that property of it by which it is a law to itself.”
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