Daily Philosophy Quotes
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“It is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, [1/2]
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
January 6, 2026 at 5:08 PM
“It is with infinite caution that any man ought to venture upon pulling down an edifice which has answered in any tolerable degree for ages the common purposes of society, [1/2]
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
“Society is indeed a contract. … The state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco [1/3]
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
January 5, 2026 at 5:39 PM
“Society is indeed a contract. … The state ought not to be considered as nothing better than a partnership agreement in a trade of pepper and coffee, calico, or tobacco [1/3]
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
-Edmund Burke (Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1790)
“It is by imitation far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives”
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
January 2, 2026 at 12:01 AM
“It is by imitation far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly. This forms our manners, our opinions, our lives”
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, … is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. [1/2]
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
December 30, 2025 at 4:44 PM
“Whatever is fitted in any sort to excite the ideas of pain and danger, that is to say, whatever is in any sort terrible, … is a source of the sublime; that is, it is productive of the strongest emotion which the mind is capable of feeling. [1/2]
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
-Edmund Burke (Sublime and Beautiful, 1757)
“But there are also remarkable differences between the two. The Beautiful in nature is connected with the form of the object, which consists in having boundaries. [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
December 29, 2025 at 7:42 PM
“But there are also remarkable differences between the two. The Beautiful in nature is connected with the form of the object, which consists in having boundaries. [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
“The judgment of taste has nothing at its basis but the form of the purposiveness of an object (or of its mode of representation)”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
December 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
“The judgment of taste has nothing at its basis but the form of the purposiveness of an object (or of its mode of representation)”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
“There can be purposiveness without purpose … we can observe a purposiveness according to form, without basing it on a purpose (as the material of the nexus finalis), and we can notice it in objects, although only by reflection.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
December 27, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“There can be purposiveness without purpose … we can observe a purposiveness according to form, without basing it on a purpose (as the material of the nexus finalis), and we can notice it in objects, although only by reflection.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
“The beautiful is that which pleases universally, without a concept.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
December 26, 2025 at 7:06 PM
“The beautiful is that which pleases universally, without a concept.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
“Taste is the faculty of judging of an object or a method of representing it by an entirely disinterested satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The object of such satisfaction is called beautiful.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
December 25, 2025 at 9:06 PM
“Taste is the faculty of judging of an object or a method of representing it by an entirely disinterested satisfaction or dissatisfaction. The object of such satisfaction is called beautiful.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Judgement, 1790)
“The autonomy of the will is the sole principle of all moral laws and of all duties which conform to them; on the other hand, heteronomy of the elective will … is opposed to the principle [of morality]”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
December 23, 2025 at 6:31 PM
“The autonomy of the will is the sole principle of all moral laws and of all duties which conform to them; on the other hand, heteronomy of the elective will … is opposed to the principle [of morality]”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
“Act so that the maxim of thy will can always at the same time hold good as a principle of universal legislation.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
December 23, 2025 at 1:48 AM
“Act so that the maxim of thy will can always at the same time hold good as a principle of universal legislation.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Practical Reason, 1788)
“This principle, that humanity and generally every rational nature is an end in itself, … is not borrowed from experience … but must spring from pure reason.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
December 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
“This principle, that humanity and generally every rational nature is an end in itself, … is not borrowed from experience … but must spring from pure reason.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
“the practical imperative will be as follows: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
December 18, 2025 at 5:46 PM
“the practical imperative will be as follows: So act as to treat humanity, whether in thine own person or in that of any other, in every case as an end withal, never as means only.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
“the imperative of duty may be expressed thus: Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a Universal Law of Nature.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
December 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
“the imperative of duty may be expressed thus: Act as if the maxim of thy action were to become by thy will a Universal Law of Nature.”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
“Now an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every object of the will, so that nothing remains which can determine the will except objectively the law”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
“Now an action done from duty must wholly exclude the influence of inclination and with it every object of the will, so that nothing remains which can determine the will except objectively the law”
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
-Immanuel Kant (Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, 1785)
“Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a Good Will.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 15, 2025 at 10:40 PM
“Nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a Good Will.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“Mathematics and Physics are the two theoretical sciences which have to determine their objects a priori. The former is purely a priori, the latter is partially so, but is also dependent on other sources of cognition.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 12, 2025 at 3:58 PM
“Mathematics and Physics are the two theoretical sciences which have to determine their objects a priori. The former is purely a priori, the latter is partially so, but is also dependent on other sources of cognition.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all. [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 10, 2025 at 7:41 PM
“It is, therefore, quite correct to say that the senses do not err, not because they always judge correctly, but because they do not judge at all. [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
“Thoughts without content are void; intuitions without conceptions, blind.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space… [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
“The light dove cleaving in free flight the thin air, whose resistance it feels, might imagine that her movements would be far more free and rapid in airless space… [1/2]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“Criticism alone can strike a blow at the root of Materialism, Fatalism, Atheism, Free-thinking, Fanaticism, and Superstition, which are universally injurious—as well as of Idealism and Scepticism”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
“Criticism alone can strike a blow at the root of Materialism, Fatalism, Atheism, Free-thinking, Fanaticism, and Superstition, which are universally injurious—as well as of Idealism and Scepticism”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“Time is not an empirical conception. For neither co‑existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation à priori”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 4, 2025 at 5:02 PM
“Time is not an empirical conception. For neither co‑existence nor succession would be perceived by us, if the representation of time did not exist as a foundation à priori”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“The representation of space cannot be borrowed from the relations of external phænomena through experience; but, on the contrary, this external experience is itself only possible through the said antecedent representation.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 3, 2025 at 9:00 PM
“The representation of space cannot be borrowed from the relations of external phænomena through experience; but, on the contrary, this external experience is itself only possible through the said antecedent representation.”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“Of time we cannot have any external intuition, any more than we can have an internal intuition of space. What then are time and space? Are they real existences? Or, are they merely relations or determinations of things…”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 2, 2025 at 8:05 PM
“Of time we cannot have any external intuition, any more than we can have an internal intuition of space. What then are time and space? Are they real existences? Or, are they merely relations or determinations of things…”
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
“We here propose to do just what Copernicus did in attempting to explain the celestial movements. [1/3]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
December 1, 2025 at 8:03 PM
“We here propose to do just what Copernicus did in attempting to explain the celestial movements. [1/3]
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)
-Immanuel Kant (Critique of Pure Reason, 1781)