Immanuel Kant Quotes About Perfection

Quotes about: Perfection

• How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Perfection

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

• Humanity is at its greatest perfection in the race of the whites.

  Immanuel Kant

  Race, Perfection, Humanity

  "Anthropology from a Pragmatic Point of View". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1798.

• Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Animal, Others Happiness

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

• But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained, as in the case of pleasure gardens, room decoration, all sorts of useful utensils, and so on, any regularity that has an air of constraint is [to be] avoided as much as possible. That is why the English taste in gardens, or the baroque taste in furniture, carries the imagination's freedom very far, even to the verge of the grotesque, because it is precisely this divorce from any constraint of a rule that the case is posited where taste can show its greatest perfection in designs made by the imagination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Divorce, Garden

  "Critique of Judgment".

• The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Destiny, Men, Race

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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