“It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life.”
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“Society cares about the individual only in so far as he is profitable. The young know this.”
“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.”
“It is precisely in knowing its limits that philosophy consists.”
“All human knowledge begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.”
“I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge in order to make room for faith.”
“In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity.”
“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
“Enlightenment is man’s leaving his self-caused immaturity.”
“By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.”
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
“However, he who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards that he gets stepped on.”
“A mind of slow apprehension is therefore not necessarily a weak mind.”
“The one who is alert with abstractions is not always profound, he is more often very superficial.”
“The man of principles has character. Of him we know definitely what to expect.”
“Collectively, the more civilized men are, the more they are actors.”
“The child must be brought up free (that he allow others to be free).”
“Too much discipline makes one narrow and kills proficiency.”