Quote of Immanuel Kant - Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions...
Biography - Immanuel Kant:
German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes for: concept
The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.
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Quotes for: intuition
The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of knowledge.
Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge.
The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.
If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.
A new idea comes suddenly and in a rather intuitive way. But intuition is nothing but the outcome of earlier intellectual experience.
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