4 Posts found for Author: Immanuel Kant

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Author: Immanuel Kant | Subject: Education | Scholarship

The most critical piece of knowledge, then, is the knowledge of what is essential to learn and what isn’t. A huge amount of knowledge is accumulated at present. Soon our abilities will be too weak, and our lives too short, to study this knowledge. We have vast treasures of knowledge at our disposal but after we study them, we often do not use them at … [ Read more ]

Author: Immanuel Kant | Subjects: Concepts, Education | Scholarship, Intelligence | Knowledge

The only thing good without qualification is a good will.

Author: Immanuel Kant | Subjects: Philosophy, Wisdom

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.

Author: Immanuel Kant | Source: Preface to Critique of Pure Reason | Subjects: Philosophy, Thought | Inquiry