"A philosophical attempt to work out a..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant
A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.
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“Why were a few, or a single one, made at all, if only to exist in order to be made eternally miserable, which is infinitely worse than non-existence?”
“Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.”
“The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.”
More on History
“Not to know what happened before one was born is always to be a child.”
“History will be kind to me for I intend to write it.”
“There is not an acre of ground on the globe that is in possession of its rightful owner, or that has not been taken away from owner after owner, cycle afer cycle, by force and bloodshed.”
More on Humanity
“There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed.”
“If one holds these high principles clearly before one's eyes, and compares them with the life and spirit of our times, then it appears glaringly that civilized mankind finds itself at present in grave danger. In the totalitarian states it is the rulers themselves who strive actually to destroy that spirit of humanity. In less threatened parts it is nationalism and intolerance, as well as the oppression of the individuals by economic means, which threaten to choke these most precious traditions.”
“I wish people would love everybody else the way they love me. It would be a better world.”