Aristotle vs Immanuel Kant on Knowledge

“All men by nature desire to know.”

Metaphysics Book I, 980a.21 : Opening paragraph of Metaphysics | Variant: All men by nature desire knowledge. | The first sentence is in the Oxford Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2005), 21:10

“The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet.”

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

“Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal and history only the particular.”

διὸ καὶ φιλοσοφώτερον καὶ σπουδαιότερον ποίησις ἱστορίας ἐστίν: ἡ μὲν γὰρ ποίησις μᾶλλον τὰ καθόλου, ἡ δ᾽ ἱστορία τὰ καθ᾽ ἕκαστον λέγει.

“My lectures are published and not published; they will be intelligible to those who heard them, and to none beside.”

Letter to Alexander the Great as quoted by William Whewell , History of the Inductive Sciences (1837), Ch. 2, Sect. 2

“Of things said without any combination, each signifies either substance or quantity or qualification or a relative or where or when or being-in-a-position or having or doing or being affected . To give a rough idea, examples of substance are man, horse; of quantity: four-foot, five-foot; of qualification: white, grammatical; of a relative: double, half, larger; of where: in the Lyceum, in the market-place; of when: yesterday, last-year; of being-in-a-position: is-lying, is sitting; of having: has-shoes-on, has-armour-on; of doing: cutting, burning; of being-affected: being-cut, being-burned.”

1b25-2a10; J. L. Ackrill (tr.), 1984-1995

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason.”

All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”

A 51, B 75

“The body is a temple.”

A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken , p. 1043

“Immanuel Kant , Kant's Critique of Judgment (1892) Tr. J.H. Bernard”

Moral Teleology supplies the deficiency in physical Teleology , and first establishes a Theology ; because the latter, if it did not borrow from the former without being observed, but were to proceed consistently, could only found a Demonology , which is incapable of any definite concept.

“Immanuel Kant, The Metaphysics of Ethics by Immanuel Kant, trans. J.W. Semple, ed. with Iintroduction by Rev. Henry Calderwood (Edinburgh: T. & T. Clark, 1886) (3rd edition). Chapter: GENERAL DIVISION OF JURISPRUDENCE.”

Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity ; and is independence on the will and co-action of every other in so far as this consists with every other person’s freedom.