Tao Te Ching
Critique Of Pure Reason
In the entire history of philosophy, one of the most influential books; a philosophical “Copernican revolution”; and exposition of transcendental idealism; the Critique of Pure Reason debates the limits and the foundations of human knowledge. Kant proposes that knowledge doesn’t "conform to objects", but instead objects "conform to our knowledge.” He describes how our minds shape experience and make knowledge possible and argues that “things in themselves” are unknowable because of being inevitably shaped by our minds. An early discussion parallel to the eastern idea of no self, he discusses the transcendental and the empirical ego.
Themes
Quotes from Critique Of Pure Reason
“A constitution of the greatest possible human freedom must place at its foundation and for all its laws, the liberty of every individual co-existing with the liberty of every other.”
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“I do not mean by this a critique of books and systems, but of the faculty of reason in general to be able to strive after understanding independent of experience.”
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“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
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“In a perfect state, no punishments at all would be necessary.”
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“Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.”
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“Skepticism is a resting-place for human reason, where it can reflect upon its dogmatic wanderings… but it is no dwelling-place for permanent settlement.”
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“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
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“The function of the true State is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.”
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“The human heart refuses to believe in a universe without a purpose.”
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“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
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“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe—the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.”
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