Quote by W. Somerset Maugham Download Open image “Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant.” — W. Somerset Maugham ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Reverence for what somebody said is a stultifying quality: there's a damned sight too much reverence in the world. Kant thought things not because… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
[Kant] was like many people: in intellectual matters he was skeptical, but in moral matters he believed imjplicitly in the maximx that he had… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Kant ... stated that he had "found it necessary to deny knowledge ... to make room for faith," but all he had "denied" was… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Kant did think he had a moral route back to rational faith in God, for those who need it, and he thought that at… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness. — Alfred Nobel Copy Share Image
Kant attempted to work out a view of religion and religious belief according to which existing religions could be brought into harmony with modernity,… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Kant did not explain the origin of these judgments but assumed that they were attained by abstraction from the activity of the soul, which… — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Kant was probably the worst writer ever heard of on earth before Karl Marx. Some of his ideas were really quite simple, but he… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
It was Kant who first rejected the Cartesian premise of the mind's self-transparency: the idea that when it comes to knowing our own minds,… — Ray Brassier Copy Share Image
“in the same sense in which Kant held that the empirical sciences depend on some mental abilities – intuition and categories” — Ulrich Müller Copy Share Image
Ever since Kant divorced reason from reality, his intellectual descendants have been diligently widening the breach. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“A man thinks it quite natural that he should fall out of love with a woman, but it never strikes him for a moment… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“A man's work reveals him. In social intercourse he gives you the surface that he wishes the world to accept, but in his book… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
The world is hard and cruel. We are here none knows why, and we go none knows whither. We must be very humble. We… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“There is no more merit in having read a thousand books than in having ploughed a thousand fields.” — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“I wanted to live again and again. I was willing to accept every sort of life, no matter what its pain and sorrow; I… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
In Hollywood, the women are all peaches. It makes one long for an apple occasionally. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“His love became a prison from which he longed to escape, but he had not the strength merely to open the door-that was all… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I did not believe him capable of love. That is an emotion in which tenderness is an essential part, but Strickland had no tenderness… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
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