Immanuel Kant Quotes About Giving

Quotes about: Giving

• Give a man everything he wants and at that moment everything is not everything

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Giving, Want

• Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!

  Immanuel Kant

  Science, Giving, World

  Immanuel Kant (1900). “Kant's cosmogony as in his essay on the retardation of the rotation of the earth and his Natural history and theory of the heavens: With introduction, appendices, and a portrait of Thomas Wright of Durham”

• Physicians think they do a lot for a patient when they give his disease a name.

  Immanuel Kant

  Thinking, Names, Giving

• Both love of mankind, and respect for their rights are duties; the former however is only a conditional, the latter an unconditional, purely imperative duty, which he must be perfectly certain not to have transgressed who would give himself up to the secret emotions arising from benevolence.

  Immanuel Kant

  Rights, Giving, Secret

• The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Business, Philosophy, Giving

• Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

  Immanuel Kant

  Children, Giving, Parent

• This spirit of freedom is expanding even where it must struggle against the external obstacles of governments that misunderstand their own function. Such governments are illuminated by the example that the existence of freedom need not give cause for the least concern regarding public order and harmony in the commonwealth. If only they refrain from inventing artifices to keep themselves in it, men will gradually raise themselves from barbarism.

  Immanuel Kant

  Struggle, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (1983). “Perpetual Peace and Other Essays: on Politics, History, and Morals”, p.45, Hackett Publishing

• Nature does nothing in vain, and in the use of means to her goals she is not prodigal. Her giving to man reason and the freedom of the will which depends upon it is clear indication of her purpose. Man accordingly was not to be guided by instinct, not nurtured and instructed with ready-made knowledge; rather, he should bring forth everything out of his own resources.

  Immanuel Kant

  Mean, Men, Giving

  "Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View" as translated in '"On History" by Lewis White Beck, (Third Thesis), www.marxists.org. 1963.

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