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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Immanuel Kant
Fear, Philosophical, Science

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

Immanuel Kant
Knowledge, Science, Ideas
"Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason".

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

The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience

Immanuel Kant
Math, Science, Example
Immanuel Kant (1881). “Critique of Pure Reason”

Philosophy stands in need of a science which shall determine the possibility, principles, and extent of human knowledge à priori.

Immanuel Kant
Philosophy, Knowledge, Science

Our intellect does not draw its laws from nature, but it imposes its laws upon nature.

Immanuel Kant
Science, Law, Doe

Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

Immanuel Kant
Science, Giving, World
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”

If it were possible for us to have so deep an insight into a man's character as shown both in inner and in outer actions, that every, even the least, incentive to these actions and all external occasions which affect them were so known to us that his future conduct could be predicted with as great a certainty as the occurrence of a solar or lunar eclipse, we could nevertheless still assert that the man is free.

Immanuel Kant
Character, Science, Men

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise.

Immanuel Kant
Knowledge, Science, Thinking
Immanuel Kant (1965). “Critique of pure reason”

Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (receptivity for impressions), the second is the power of knowing an object through these representations (spontaneity [in the production] of concepts).

Immanuel Kant
Spring, Knowledge, Science
Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.61, Read Books Ltd

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

Immanuel Kant
Nature, Science, Order
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”

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 and the moral law within.

Immanuel Kant
Science, Law, Two
Critique of Practical Reason conclusion (1788) (translation by Lewis White Beck)

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

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

Immanuel Kant
Flower, Science, Doe
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”

The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant
Peace, Science, Finals
Immanuel Kant (1887). “The Philosophy of Law: An Exposition of the Fundamental Principles of Jurisprudence as the Science of Right”, p.230, The Lawbook Exchange, Ltd.

We come no nearer the infinitude of the creative power of God, if we enclose the space of its revelation within a sphere described with the radius of the Milky Way, than if we were to limit it to a ball an inch in diameter. All that is finite, whatever has limits and a definite relation to unity, is equally far removed from the infinite... Eternity is not sufficient to embrace the manifestations of the Supreme Being, if it is not combined with the infinitude of space.

Immanuel Kant
God, Science, Space
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”

An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means.

Immanuel Kant
Mean, Science, Ends

In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics.

Immanuel Kant
Science, Mathematics, Department

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather.

Immanuel Kant
Country, Science, Law
Immanuel Kant (2016). “Delphi Collected Works of Immanuel Kant (Illustrated)”, p.812, Delphi Classics

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