Immanuel Kant, Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View (1798), translated by Mary J. Gregor (1974), p. 142

Inclinations of illusion make weak men superstitious and superstitious men weak. ... The illusion that leads them to mistake the subjective for the objective, to take the voice of inner sense for knowledge of things themselves, also makes the tendency to superstition comprehensible.

— Immanuel Kant on Superstition

What It Means

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About Immanuel Kant

Immanuel Kant (22 April 1724 – 12 February 1804), born Emanuel Kant, was a German philosopher.