Quote #48
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
More from Immanuel Kant
- Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.
- Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee.
- Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
- He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray.
- 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.
- If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
- Do what is right, though the world may perish.
- If we attend to the course of conversation in mixed companies consisting not merely of scholars and subtle reasoners but also of business p…