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Immanuel Kant Quotes
«Thus no member of the commonwealth can have a hereditary privilege as against his fellow-subjects; and no-one can hand down to his descendants the privileges attached to the rank he occupies in the commonwealth, nor act as if he were qualified as a ruler by birth and forcibly prevent others from reach?ing the higher levels of the hierarchy through their own merit. He may hand down everything else, so long as it is material and not pertaining to his person, for it may be acquired and disposed of as property and may over a series of generations create considerable inequalities in wealth among the mem?bers of the commonwealt. But he may not prevent his sub?ordinates from raising themselves to his own level if they are able and entitled to do so by their talent, industry and good fortune. If this were not so, he would be allowed to practise coercion without himself being subject to coercive counter-measures from others, and would thus be more than their fellow-subject.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
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«Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.»
«Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«Two things fill me with constantly increasing admiration and awe, the longer and more earnestly I reflect on them: the starry heavens without and the moral law within.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«To be fully comfortable to the principle of right, the form of government must be representative. This is the only one that permits republicanism, without which the government is arbitrary and despotic, whatever the constitution may be.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)
«Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.»
Author: Immanuel Kant
(Philosopher)