Kant Quote by Will Durant Download Open image ““Kant is the last person in the world whom we should read on Kant.”” — Will Durant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Kant
“You know, in the real world, there are people who are not actually Kantians…there are even Utilitarians.” — Dr. Aaron Bunch Copy Share Image
“To suppose a reader thoroughly indifferent to Kant, is to suppose him thoroughly unintellectual; and, therefore, though in reality he should happen not to… — Thomas de Quincey Copy Share Image
“But still, how could they write whole libraries about someone like Kant and hardly even notice Taylor-that prophet who could see ten centuries ahead?” — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Kant thought things, not because they were true, but because he was Kant. — W. Somerset Maugham 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
“A person is a novel: you don't know how it will end until the very last page. Otherwise, it wouldn't be worth reading to… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
“Kant's old hat; the autographs of great men; these things are gaped at with interest and awe by many who have never read their works. They cannot do anything more than just gape. The intelligent amongst them are moved by the wish to see the objects which the great man habitually had before his eyes; and by a strange illusion,… — Arthur Schopenhaur Copy Share
“A person is like a novel: Up to the very last page you don't know how it's going to end. Otherwise, there'd be no… — Yevgeny Zamyatin 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
I came to think of myself, not as a dance and chaos of molecules, but as a brief and minute portion of that majestic… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“This is the tragedy of almost every civilization—that its soul is in its faith, and seldom survives philosophy.” — Will Durant Copy Share Image
In philosophy, as in politics, the longest distance between two points is a straight line. — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“It is a mistake to think that the past is dead. Nothing that has ever happened is quite without influence at this moment. The… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“There is hardly an absurdity of the past that cannot be found flourishing somewhere in the present. Underneath all civilization, ancient or modern, moved… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The Islamic conquest of India is probably the bloodiest story in history. It is a discouraging tale, for its evident moral is that civilization… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Intellectualism—the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends—fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“All those fascinating varieties of terrain—mountains and valleys, fiords and straits, gulfs and streams—that make Europe a panorama of diverse delight, have broken the… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“To be great is not to be placed above humanity, ruling others; but to stand above the partialities and futilities of uninformed desire, and… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
“Against Hume, Kant has found a more proper ground for humility: “True humility follows unavoidably from our sincere and exact comparison of ourselves with… — 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 novelist also… — 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. Losing all… — 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 of his… — 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 effect, but… — 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 at the… — 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, and has… — 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 the mere… — 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 *saying* “*I*,”… — 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 people of… — Timmermann Jens Copy Share Image
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