The Immanuel Kant Collection Quotes

“things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "El que es cruel con los animales se endurece también en su trato con los hombres. Podemos juzgar el corazón de un hombre por su tratamiento de los animales" (Immanuel Kant)”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La felicidad no es un ideal de la razón sino de la imaginación" (Immanuel Kant)”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“Gustavo Solivellas dice: "La felicidad no brota de la razón sino de la imaginación" (Immanuel Kant)”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“Dwell with yourself, and you will know how short your household stuff is.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“A Critique of pure Reason, i.e. of our faculty of judging a priori according to principles, would be incomplete, if the Judgement, which as a cognitive faculty also makes claim to such principles, were not treated as a particular part of it; although its principles in a system of pure Philosophy need form no particular part between the theoretical and the practical, but can be annexed when needful to one or both as occasion requires.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“The state of peace among men living side by side is not the natural state (status naturalis); the natural state is one of war. This does not always mean open hostilities, but at least an unceasing threat of war. A state of peace, therefore, must be established, for in order to be secured against hostility it is not sufficient that hostilities simply be not committed; and, unless this security is pledged to each by his neighbor (a thing that can occur only in a civil state), each may treat his neighbor, from whom he demands this security, as an enemy.3”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“4. “National Debts Shall Not Be Contracted with a View to the External Friction of States”; This expedient of seeking aid within or without the state is above suspicion when the purpose is domestic economy (e.g., the improvement of roads, new settlements, establishment of stores against unfruitful years, etc.). But as an opposing machine in the antagonism of powers, a credit system which grows beyond sight and which is yet a safe debt for the present requirements — because all the creditors do not require payment at one time — constitutes a dangerous money power. This ingenious invention of a commercial people [England] in this century is dangerous because it is a war treasure which exceeds the treasures of all other states; it cannot be exhausted except by default of taxes (which is inevitable), though it can be long delayed by the stimulus to trade which occurs through the reaction of credit on industry and commerce. This facility in making war, together with the inclination to do so on the part of rulers—an inclination which seems inborn in human nature — is thus a great hindrance to perpetual peace. Therefore, to forbid this credit system must be a preliminary article of perpetual peace all the more because it must eventually entangle many innocent states in the inevitable bankruptcy and openly harm them. They are therefore justified in allying themselves against such a state and its measures.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“Treaty of Peace Shall Be Held Valid in Which There Is Tacitly Reserved Matter for a Future War”;”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works

“I. Of the difference between Pure and Empirical Knowledge That all our knowledge begins with experience there can be no doubt. For how is it possible that the faculty of cognition should be awakened into exercise otherwise than by means of objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, partly rouse our powers of understanding into activity, to compare, to connect, or to separate these, and so to convert the raw material of our sensuous impressions into a knowledge of objects, which is called experience? In respect of time, therefore, no knowledge of ours is antecedent to experience, but begins with it. But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. For, on the contrary, it is quite possible that our empirical knowledge is a compound of that which we receive through impressions, and that which the faculty of cognition supplies from itself (sensuous impressions giving merely the occasion), an addition which we cannot distinguish from the original element given by sense, till long practice has made us attentive to, and skilful in separating it. It is, therefore, a question which requires close investigation, and not to be answered at first sight, whether there exists a knowledge altogether independent of experience, and even of all sensuous impressions. Knowledge of this kind is called a priori, in contradistinction to empirical knowledge, which has its sources a posteriori, that is, in experience.”
― Immanuel Kant, The Immanuel Kant Collection: 8 Classic Works