“Against Hume, Kant has found a more proper ground for humility: “True humility follows unavoidably from our sincere and exact comparison of… — Jeanine Grenberg Copy Share Image
“[Dostoyevsky] eloquently proves that heartless ideas are often a source of immorality: they bring with them destructiveness, hatred, cynicism, and misanthropy. The… — George L. Kline Copy Share Image
“Modern man, brought up on Kantian idealism, regards nature as being no more than an outcome of the laws of the mind.… — Étienne Gilson Copy Share Image
“Kant also identified idle desires with wishing and active desire with willing, and he seemed to think that one of the problems… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
“Socrates could enjoy a banquet now and again, and must have derived considerable satisfaction from his conversations while the hemlock was taking… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“the passage on dignity is an addendum to the formula of autonomy: ‘act only so that the will could regard itself as… — Oliver Sensen Copy Share Image
“But how does it come about that while the ‘I think’ gives Kant a genuine phenomenal starting-point, he cannot exploit it ontologically,… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“It is clearly the result, not of carelessness but of matured judgement of our age, which will no longer rest satisfied with… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“To clarify the existentiality of the Self, we take as our ‘natural’ point of departure Dasein’s everyday interpretation of the Self. In… — Martin Heidegger Copy Share Image
“A good character may not make us happy, but it does make us worthy of happiness (XXV 1174). He also maintains that… — Timmermann Jens Copy Share Image
“Kant finds that the ‘virtue of the heart’ is central and emphasizes the role of the understanding and concepts at the expense… — Manfred Kuehn Copy Share Image
“The more narrow-minded a system is the more it will please worldly-wise people. Thus the system of the materialists, the doctrine of… — Novalis Copy Share Image
“It must be *possible* for the *I think* to accompany all my representations: for otherwise something would be represented within me that… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Kant’s conception of dignity is indebted to Cicero and the Roman conception of dignitas, according to which dignity is an elevated position… — Oliver Sensen Copy Share Image
“There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well… — Christine M. Korsgaard Copy Share Image
“If I were asked under what sky the human mind has most fully developed some of its choicest gifts, has most deeply… — Max Müller Copy Share Image
“Metaphysics, a completely isolated and speculative branch of rational knowledge which is raised above all teachings of experience and rests on concepts… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“The purpose of this critique of pure speculative reason consists in the attempt to change the old procedure of metaphysics, and to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It is remarkable, however, that at the very lowest point of Kant's depression, when he became perfectly incapable of conversing with any… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“Even after human beings have reached adulthood and developmental maturity, there remain hindrances in human nature that make it difficult for them… — Robert B. Louden Copy Share Image
“We have seen, therefore, that I am not allowed even to *assume*, for the sake of the necessary practical use of my… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“It will be seen how there can be the idea of a special science, the *critique of pure reason* as it may… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
