If education is to develop human nature so that it may attain the object of its being, it must involve the exercise of judgment. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy. Immanuel Kant worthy happiness way No state at war with another state should engage in hostilities of such a kind as to render mutual confidence impossible when peace will have been made. Immanuel Kant kind impossible war Criticism alone can sever the root of materialism, fatalism, atheism, free-thinking, fanaticism, and superstition, which can be injurious universally; as well as of idealism and skepticism, which are dangerous chiefly to the Schools, and hardly allow of being handed on to the public. Immanuel Kant roots school thinking What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope? Immanuel Kant ought philosophical hope Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed immaturity...No thing is required for this enlightenment.. .except freedom; and the freedom in question is the least harmful of all, namely, the freedom to use reason publicly in all matters. Immanuel Kant immaturity self men How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. Immanuel Kant perfection lying If, like Hume, I had all manner of adornment in my power, I would still have reservations about using them. It is true that some readers will be scared off by dryness. But isn't it necessary to scare off some if in their case the matter would end up in bad hands? Immanuel Kant philosophical scare hands The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgment of reason, and perverts its liberty. Immanuel Kant judgment greed liberty Apart from moral conduct, all that man thinks himself able to do in order to become acceptable to God is mere superstition and religious folly. Immanuel Kant religious men thinking In the natural state no concept of God can arise, and the false one which one makes for himself is harmful. Hence the theory of natural religion can be true only where there is no science; therefore it cannot bind all men together. Immanuel Kant natural together men The light dove, cleaving the air in her free flight, and feeling its resistance, might imagine that its flight would be still easier in empty space. Immanuel Kant space light air After death the soul possesses self-consciousness, otherwise, it would be the subject of spiritual death, which has already been disproved. With this self-consciousness necessarily remains personality and the consciousness of personal identity. Immanuel Kant personality self spiritual Of all the arts poetry (which owes its origin almost entirely to genius and will least be guided by precept or example) maintains the first rank. Immanuel Kant poetry example art In the metaphysical elements of aesthetics the various nonmoral feelings are to be made use of; in the elements of moral metaphysics the various moral feelings of men, according to the differences in sex, age, education, and government, of races and climates, are to be employed. Immanuel Kant differences men sex Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism. Immanuel Kant polytheism monotheism sparks Duty is the necessity to act out of reverence for the law. Immanuel Kant reverence duty law . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . . Immanuel Kant law believe thinking [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he still has the resources to be beneficent to those suffering distress, but the distress of others does not touch him because he is sufficiently busy with his own; and now, where no inclination any longer stimulates him to it, he tears himself out of his deadly insensibility and does the action without any inclination, solely from duty. Immanuel Kant psychology fate grief An organized product of nature is that in which all the parts are mutually ends and means. Immanuel Kant ends science mean Sincerity is the indispensable ground of all conscientiousness, and by consequence of all heartfelt religion. Immanuel Kant heartfelt sincerity religion
