Quote #62
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
More from Immanuel Kant
- Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
- Reason can never prove the existence of God.
- Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
- Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight …
- Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
- Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything …
- Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
- Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.