#kant

Kant and Hegel are interesting thinkers. But I am happy to insist that they are also terrible writers. ↗

— Alain de Botton

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Well, I don't know if I can comment on Kant or Hegel because I'm no real philosopher in the sense of knowing what these people have said in any detail so let me not comment on that too much. ↗

— Roger Penrose

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Duty is for Kant the One and All. Out of the duty of gratitude, he claims, one has to defend and esteem the ancients; and only out of duty has he become a great man. ↗

— Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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The trouble with Germans is not that they fire shells, but that they engrave them with quotations from Kant. ↗

— Karl Kraus

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No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. ↗

— Wilhelm Dilthey

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The object as it appears to us is a phenomenon, an appearance, perhaps very different from the external object before it came within the ken of our senses; what the original object was we can never know; the 'thing-in-itself' may be an object of thought or inference (a 'noumenon'), but it cannot be experienced, for in being experienced it would be changed by its passage through sense and thought. ↗

— Will Durant in "Kant and German Idealism"

#kant #philosophy #change

Sensation is unorganized stimulus, perception is organized sensation, conception is organized perception, science is organized knowledge, wisdom is organized life: each is a greater degree of order, and sequence, and unity. ↗

— Will Durant in "Kant and German Idealism"

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You can read Kant by yourself, if you wanted to; but you must share a joke with someone else. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else. ↗

— Robert Louis Stevenson

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Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for some men to set themselves up as the guardians of all the rest. . . If I have a book which understands for me, a pastor who has a conscience for me, a doctor who decides my diet, I need not trouble myself. If I am willing to pay, I need not think. Others will do it for me. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#diet