For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.


A 747, B 775; as translated by F. Max Mueller - Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

Immanuel Kant Quotes

For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.

For it is extremely absurd to expect to be enlightened by reason, and yet to prescribe to her beforehand on which side she must incline.