Kant's classic quotes

 　　1. Only two things in this world so that

　　our souls are deeply shocked: First,
　　the brilliant
　　stars overhead; second, the lofty moral laws within our hearts.
　　—Critique of Practical Reason

　　2. The Critique of Judgment asks: What can we hope for? Kant's answer is: To truly be moral, I must assume the existence of God and that life does not end after death. In the Critique of Judgment, Kant also concerns himself with the purpose, meaning, and mode of human mental activity, including aesthetic appreciation and imagination. —Kant, Critique of Judgment
　　3.

　　Aesthetic ideas give rise to many thoughts, but no single thought, no concept, corresponds to them; therefore, no language can fully reach them or express them.
　　—Kant, Critique of Judgment

　　4. Experience tells us that something is one way, but it does not tell us that it cannot be another way.
　　—Kant, Critique of Pure Reason

　　5. In the process of human beings understanding nature, it is not things that influence people, but people who influence things. It is we humans who construct the real world; in the process of understanding things, people are more important than things themselves. We can never truly know the essence of things; we can only know their appearance.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　6. Thought without content is empty; intuition without concept is blind.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　7. The critique of reason inevitably leads to science; conversely, the dogmatic application of reason without critique leads to unfounded claims that can be opposed to with equally obvious and diametrically opposed claims, thus leading to skepticism.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　8. The true path of metaphysics is not to deal with the chaotic and boundless objects of experience, but to begin with reason itself and to engage in dialogue with reason itself. This is the foundation of metaphysics, and it cannot be uprooted.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　9. This capacity (receptive capacity) to acquire representations through the way we are stimulated by objects is called sensibility.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　10. "There is only one thing we are certain of, and that we will all die." Death, it seems, is an experience gained from witnessing the demise of other things. Yet this proposition is indeed a necessity. However, some might argue that people like Enoch don't even exist, so ultimately it remains an empirical judgment based on the assumption that "no exceptions have been found."
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　11. Metaphysics is a completely isolated, speculative knowledge of reason, entirely beyond the teaching of experience, relying precisely solely on concepts (unlike mathematics, which relies on applying concepts to intuition). Thus, reason itself is its own student; although metaphysics is older than all other sciences, and even if all other sciences were completely swallowed up in a barbaric abyss of destruction, it would survive, fate has not yet been so kind to it in enabling it to choose a reliable path of science.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　12. All our knowledge begins with experience, this is undeniable; for the cognitive faculties are stimulated and act, if not by the objects that arouse our senses, on the one hand creating representations themselves, and on the other hand activating our intellectual actions to compare these representations, connect or separate them, and thus process the raw material of sensory impressions into knowledge called the objects of experience, then by what? Therefore, in time, we have no knowledge that precedes experience; all knowledge begins with experience.
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

　　13. The subjective validity of regard as true, or judgment, lies in the relationship of certainty (which is simultaneously objectively valid) at three levels: opinion, belief, and knowledge. Opinion is a regard as true that is recognized as insufficient both subjectively and objectively. If regard as true is sufficient only subjectively, but simultaneously considered insufficient objectively, then it is called belief. Finally, the kind of regard as true that is sufficient both subjectively and objectively is called knowledge. One of the joys of reading is discovering that you occasionally find yourself thinking alike with history's greatest thinkers. Long before reading *Critique of Pure Reason*, I had already contemplated the relationship between knowledge and opinion...
　　—Kant, *Critique of Pure Reason*

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