...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings... -Immanuel Kant

 

...as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings...


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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

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The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

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The height of progress, when people's propensity to strive for what is dispensable begins to interfere with what is indispensable, is called luxury. -Immanuel Kant
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The universal and lasting establishment of peace constitutes not merely a part, but the whole final purpose and end of the science of right as viewed within the limits of reason.

Immanuel Kant
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So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

Immanuel Kant
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -Immanuel Kant
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

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