Human nature Quote by Immanuel Kant

“War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.” quote by Immanuel Kant — Download Open image

““War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.””

Immanuel Kant

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings)

Human nature Love Nature Nature of man Noble-visions Selfish motives War

More by Immanuel Kant

Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided to separate and disperse throughout the world), the last murderer remaining in prison would first have to be executed, so that each has done to him what his deeds deserve and blood guilt does not cling…

Immanuel Kant

How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

Immanuel Kant

Image

Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

Immanuel Kant

Image

Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

Immanuel Kant

Image

Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

Immanuel Kant

Image

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Immanuel Kant

Image

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

Immanuel Kant

Image

When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

Immanuel Kant

Image

Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of…

Immanuel Kant

Image

The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the…

Immanuel Kant

Image

“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.”

Immanuel Kant

Image

Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to…

Immanuel Kant

Image

Explore all 476 Immanuel Kant quotes

More Human nature quotes

There is no human nature, since there is no god to conceive it.

Jean-Paul Sartre

Image

Nothing is so powerful as an insight into human nature... what compulsions drive a man, what instincts dominate his action. If you know these…

William Bernbach

Image

A Light exists in Spring Not present on the Year At any other period - When March is scarcely here A Color stands abroad On Solitary Fields That Science cannot overtake But Human Nature feels. It waits upon the Lawn, It shows the furthest Tree Upon the furthest Slope you know It almost speaks to you. Then as Horizons step…

Emily Dickinson

“The deepest urge in human nature is the desire to be important.”

John Dewey

Image

“The aristocratic interiority is centered on the higher mind, the mens, the ajna chakra, the seat of intellect and intuition that commands the lower soul and the body. To be blunt, that describes the true 'aristocrat if the soul'. The second is the idea of destiny and the spiritual impetus behind it. A people, family, and son, have certain spiritual…

Julius Evola

I think that most of us, anyway, read these stories that we know are not "true" because we're hungry for another kind of truth: the mythic truth about human nature in general, the particular truth about those life-communities that define our own identity, and the most specific truth of all: our own self-story. Fiction, because it is not about someone…

Orson Scott Card

It is proposed that a form of free dialogue may well be one of the most effective ways of investigating the crisis which faces society, and indeed the whole of human nature and consciousness today. Moreover, it may turn out that such a form of free exchange of ideas and information is of fundamental relevance for transforming culture and freeing…

David Bohm