69 Quotes About Kant

You can see likewise that the contradiction involved in the concept of 'salvaging' is not asimple intellectual contradiction, but a dialectical one. That is to say, it is only possible to rescue ontology in the shape of this dialecticalcontradiction, in this pattern in which existence and existent things are mutually interrelated and interdependent - as opposed to an abstract conception of ontology as pure existence standing in absolute opposition to existing beings.

You can see likewise that the contradiction involved in the concept of 'salvaging' is not asimple intellectual contradiction, but a dialectical one. That is to say, it is only possible to rescue ontology in the shape of this dialectical contradiction, in this pattern in which existence and existent things are mutually interrelated and interdependent - as opposed to an abstract conception of ontology as pure existence standing in absolute opposition to existing beings.

Tan sólo por la educación puede el hombre llegar a ser hombre. El hombre no es más que lo que la educación hace de él.

Das Lachen ist der Gesundheit zuträglich, denn es fördert die Verdauung.

In order to discredit faith and seduce believers, Kant does not hesitate to appeal to pride or vanity: whoever does not rely on reason alone is a "minor" who refuses to "grow up"; if men allow themselves to be led by "authorities" instead of "thinking for themselves," it is solely through laziness and cowardice, neither more nor less. A thinker who needs to make use of such means — which on the whole are demagogic — must indeed be short of serious arguments.

All praise to the masters indeed, but we too could produce a Kant or a Hugo.