Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant All trades, arts, and handiworks have gained by division of labor... Where the different kinds of work are not distinguished and divided, where everyone is a jack-of-all-trades, there manufactures remain still in the greatest barbarism. Immanuel Kant division-of-labor different art Animals... are there merely as a means to an end. That end is man. Immanuel Kant animal men mean Through laziness and cowardice a large part of mankind, even after nature has freed them from alien guidance, gladly remain immature. It is because of laziness and cowardice that it is so easy for others to usurp the role of guardians. It is so comfortable to be a minor! Immanuel Kant immaturity immature roles One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him. Immanuel Kant change wisdom inspirational An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. Immanuel Kant moral done action I have no knowledge of myself as I am, but merely as I appear to myself. Immanuel Kant Aus so krummen Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden. Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing can ever be made. Immanuel Kant als humanity made To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as Immanuel Kant degrees grace art All our knowledge falls with the bounds of experience. Immanuel Kant bounds fall When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward. Immanuel Kant thoughtful mind happiness What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. Immanuel Kant self-improvement duty inspirational The sceptics, a kind of nomads, despising all settled culture of the land, broke up from time to time all civil society. Fortunately their number was small, and they could not prevent the old settlers from returning to cultivate the ground afresh, though without any fixed plan or agreement. Immanuel Kant land agreement numbers The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing. Immanuel Kant liberty government people Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form. Immanuel Kant argument form ifs Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law. Immanuel Kant principles law action Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated. Immanuel Kant teacher character order This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little impression on the public mind as the equally subtle objections brought against these truths. On the other hand, since both inevitably force themselves on every man who rises to the height of speculation, it becomes the manifest duty of the schools to enter upon a thorough investigation of the rights of speculative reason, and thus to prevent the scandal which metaphysical controversies are sure, sooner or later, to cause even to the masses. Immanuel Kant men hands school Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' Immanuel Kant evil war peace A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. Immanuel Kant philosophical purpose would-be Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind... The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. Immanuel Kant science knowledge thinking
