Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Enthusiasm is always connected with the senses, whatever be the object that excites it. The true strength of virtue is serenity of mind, combined with a deliberate and steadfast determination to execute her laws. That is the healthful condition of the moral life; on the other hand, enthusiasm, even when excited by representations of goodness, is a brilliant but feverish glow which leaves only exhaustion and languor behind. Immanuel Kant determination law hands Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors. Immanuel Kant ease desire men It is difficult for the isolated individual to work himself out of the immaturity which has become almost natural for him. Immanuel Kant immaturity individual natural I assert that, in any particular natural science, one encounters genuine scientific substance only to the extent that mathematics is present. Immanuel Kant encounters substance natural With men, the state of nature is not a state of peace, but war. Immanuel Kant men war peace A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature. Immanuel Kant philosophical work-out race At some future day it will be proved, I cannot say when and where, that the human soul is, while in earth life, already in an uninterrupted communication with those living in another world. Immanuel Kant earth-life communication soul Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. Immanuel Kant exemption criticism age [A ruler is merely] the trustee of the rights of other men and he must always stand in dread of having in some way violated these rights. Immanuel Kant rights men way I am myself by inclination an investigator. Immanuel Kant investigators inclination The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted. Immanuel Kant dignity respect wisdom The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. Immanuel Kant principles evil reason Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. Immanuel Kant conformity nature law Here I shall add that the concept of change, and with it the concept of motion, as change of place, is possible only through and in the representation of time. & Motion, for example, presupposes the perception of something movable. But space considered in itself contains nothing movable; consequently motion must be something which is found in space only through experience -in other words, is an empirical datum. Immanuel Kant words-of-wisdom data space [Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed and completed. Immanuel Kant logic able steps Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me. I do not seek or conjecture either of them as if they were veiled obscurities or extravagances beyond the horizon of my vision; I see them before me and connect them immediately with the consciousness of my existence. Immanuel Kant law heaven two [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will. Immanuel Kant psychology moral action Upon the solution of this problem, or upon sufficient proof of the impossibility of synthetical knowledge a priori, depends the existence or downfall of metaphysics. Immanuel Kant proof words-of-wisdom problem Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves and apart from the receptivity of our senses. We know nothing but our manner of perceiving them. Immanuel Kant remains perception may The light dove, in free flight cutting through the air the resistance of which it feels, could get the idea that it could do even better in airless space. Likewise, Plato abandoned the world of the senses because it posed so many hindrances for the understanding, and dared to go beyond it on the wings of the ideas, in the empty space of pure understanding. Immanuel Kant cutting light plato
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