#ImmanuelKant

“Kant reversed the oldest assumption in philosophy — that knowledge must conform to objects — and argued instead that objects must conform to the structure of our minds. Everything since has been an argument with him.”

“The mind does not passively copy the world; it actively shapes everything we can experience. So we can know the world of appearances with certainty — and can never know reality as it is in itself. Inside that fenced-off world, one thing still speaks unconditionally: the moral law.”