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Immanuel Kant

Quote of Immanuel Kant - Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements...


Biography - Immanuel Kant:

German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

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.



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Quotes for: concept


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Quotes for: concept


Whatever we well understand we express clearly, and words flow with ease.





The fundamental concept in social science is Power, in the same sense in which Energy is the fundamental concept in physics.





Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.





Society exists only as a mental concept in the real world there are only individuals.





The absurd is the essential concept and the first truth.





Concepts, like individuals, have their histories and are just as incapable of withstanding the ravages of time as are individuals.











Quotes for: knowledge


Quotes

Quotes for: knowledge


True knowledge lies in knowing how to live.





Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.





It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge.





The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.





Every other knowledge is harmful to him who does not have knowledge of goodness.





Human wisdom consists in a knowledge of the order in which it is profitable to know things;











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Quotes for: intuition


Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.





The two operations of our understanding, intuition and deduction, on which alone we have said we must rely in the acquisition of 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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Immanuel Kant also said...


Have courage to use your own reason!





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.





It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.












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