Immanuel Kant Quotes about Nature

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Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Two, Awe And Wonder

Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Science, Unity

Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.155, Cambridge University Press

God put a secret art into the forces of Nature so as to enable it to fashion itself out of chaos into a perfect world system.

Immanuel Kant

Fashion, Art, Nature

Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

Human reason is by nature architectonic.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Reason, Humans

Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.297

Nature even in chaos cannot proceed otherwise than regularly and according to order.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Science, Order

Nature, when left to universal laws, tends to produce regularity out of chaos.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Science, Law

Immanuel Kant, David Walford, Ralf Meerbote (2003). “Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770”, p.191, Cambridge University Press

Everything in nature acts in conformity with law.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Law, Conformity

Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Fate, Peculiar

Immanuel Kant (1995). “Kant”, Element Books

Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all that his master chooses to tell him, but in that of a judge, who compels the witnesses to reply to those questions which he himself thinks fit to propose. To this single idea must the revolution be ascribed, by which, after groping in the dark for so many centuries, natural science was at length conducted into the path of certain progress.

Immanuel Kant

Nature, Character, Dark

Immanuel Kant (1855). “Critique of Pure Reason”, p.27