Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name. Immanuel Kant More Quotes by Immanuel Kant More Quotes From Immanuel Kant Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses. Immanuel Kant prudence reproach courage Innocence is indeed a glorious thing; but, unfortunately, it does not keep very well and is easily led astray. Immanuel Kant innocence wells doe Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence? Immanuel Kant hell miserable order A science of all these possible kinds of space [the higher dimensional ones] would undoubtedly be the highest enterprise which a finite understanding could undertake in the field of geometry... If it is possible that there could be regions with other dimensions, it is very likely that God has somewhere brought them into being. Immanuel Kant space understanding fields The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity. Immanuel Kant vanity numbers men In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. Immanuel Kant department mathematics science It is presumed that there exists a great unity in nature, in respect of the adequacy of a single cause to account for many different kinds of consequences. Immanuel Kant unity nature science Physicians think they are doing something for you by labeling what you have as a disease Immanuel Kant physicians disease thinking We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action. Immanuel Kant examination secret spring The means employed by Nature to bring about the development of all the capacities of men is their antagonism in society, so far as this is, in the end, the cause of a lawful order among men. Immanuel Kant men order mean Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by the very nature of reason itself, it is not able to ignore, but which, as transcending all its powers, it is also not able to answer. Immanuel Kant fate peculiar nature So act that anything you do may become universal law. Immanuel Kant carpe-diem law may Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. Immanuel Kant sublime understanding reason An action is essentially good if the motive of the agent be good, regardless of the consequences. Immanuel Kant agents goodness action cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened. Immanuel Kant philosophical animal men All our knowledge begins with the senses... Immanuel Kant categorical-imperative reason knowledge Act so as to use humanity, yourself and others, always as an end and never as a means to an end. Immanuel Kant use humanity mean Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to no law according to which any calculation could be made beforehand of their amount; and yet the yearly registers of these events in great countries prove that they go on with as much conformity to the laws of nature as the oscillations of the weather. Immanuel Kant law science country From timber so crooked as that from which man is carved, nothing entirely straight can be made. Immanuel Kant May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. Immanuel Kant
