"Immanuel Kant" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... swerved from great purposes, pursued the most useful though difficult knowledge, and cultivated with equal zeal the ornaments of taste and those recondite historical and statistical studies which are the roots of political science. He was as far from being flighty as Immanuel Kant. Everything that he did was marked both by temperance and sagacity. Philosophically speaking, a personality, any personal being, is undoubtedly the most mysterious thing in the universe. How abstract ideas come together to grow and ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Volume 3, Issue 17, March, 1859 • Various
... first ripples of a splashed pool. Then there was a scattering of middle-aged leaves whose forms when viewed in profile in their revealing gowns were beginning to be faintly unsymmetrical. These carried thick volumes of Thomas Aquinas and Henry James and Cardinal Mercier and Immanuel Kant and many bulging note-books filled with ...
— Flappers and Philosophers • F. Scott Fitzgerald
... Immanuel Kant was born in Konigsberg, East Prussia, April 22, 1724, the son of a saddler of Scottish descent. The family was pietist, and the future philosopher entered the university of his native city in 1740, with a view to studying theology. He developed, however, a many-sided interest in learning, ...
— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various
... an all-pervading Unity,'" and much useless labor did I spend upon the profound work of the monarch of modern thinkers—Immanuel Kant. ...
— The Young Seigneur - Or, Nation-Making • Wilfrid Chateauclair
... Immanuel Kant was born in 1724 in Koenigsberg, possibly of remoter Scottish ancestry. His father was a saddler, as Melanchthon's had been an armourer and Wolff's a tanner. His native city with its university was the scene of his whole life and labour. He was never outside of Prussia ...
— Edward Caldwell Moore - Outline of the History of Christian Thought Since Kant • Edward Moore
... Friedrich von Hagedorn. Albrecht von Haller. Gottlieb Wilhelm Rabener. Ewald Christian von Kleist. Christian Fuerchtegott Gellert. Johann Ludwig Gleim. Johann Peter Uz. Justus Moeser. Klopstock. See below. Salomon Gessner. Johann Winckelmann. Lessing. See below. Johann Georg Hamann. Immanuel Kant. Johann August Musaeus. Wieland. See below. Gottlieb Konrad Pfeffel. Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart. Matthias Claudius. Johann Caspar Lavater. Herder. See below. Heinrich Jung, Stilling. Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Gottfried August Buerger. Johann Heinrich Voss. Friedrich ...
— Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. • F. Max Mueller
... stalk of some great fungus, with a lantern of more than common dimensions in his hand, away he goes down the wooded path, up the steep bank, along the brawling stream, and across the waterfall—and ever as he goes there comes from him a continued stream of talk concerning the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, and other kindred matters. Surely if we two were seen by any human eyes, it must have been supposed that some gnome, or troll, or kelpie was luring the listener to his doom. The worst of such affairs as this was the consciousness that, when left, the old ...
— The Book-Hunter - A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author • John Hill Burton |
