"Nature has willed that man should, by..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant
Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he should partake of no other happiness or perfection than that which he himself, independently of instinct, has created by his own reason.
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“Of all the animals, the boy is the most unmanageable, inasmuch as he has the fountain of reason in him not yet regulated.”
“No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth.”
“Reason is intelligence taking exercise. Imagination is intelligence with an erection.”
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“For hours, in fall days, I watched the ducks cunningly tack and veer and hold the middle of the pond, far from the sportsman;... but what beside safety they got by sailing in the middle of Walden I do not know, unless they love its water for the same reason that I do.”
“Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones and plants and animals and a myriad of objects have each suggesting something, contributed something.”
“In my walks, I would fain return to my senses. What business have I in the woods if I am thinking of something out of the woods?”