“I had to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
Source: Immanuel Kant, “Second Preface,” Critique of Pure Reason (1781/1787), Bxxx.
On the full context of Kant’s provocative claim:
Related: On Kant’s role in the historical course of philosophy: Explaining Postmodernism: Skepticism and Socialism from Rousseau to Foucault (print or e-book), or audiobook:
“”I have told an incalculable amount of bullshit that only a tiny, tiny, tiny portion of the world’s population old enough to understand philosophy has read, understood, pondered. The farmer who runs the first company, does not know who I am. No one has ever built a rocket by applying my philosophy.”
Kent – Memory of the great Chinese of Königsberg
No one around me, absolutely no one among those who read Kant at school, remembers anything of what he was able to tell. It’s a total failure. I can say that he failed.