get in touch with the peasants, since they form about 85 per cent,
“The content of every thought must be given, in the last analysis, in terms of the experiences that warrant it, and no belief can be established as true except by reference to the sensory ‘impressions’ that provide its guarantee. (This is the general assumption of empiricism.)”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
“Kant enjoyed the company of women (provided that they did not pretend to understand the Critique of Pure Reason)”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
“went to Russia a Communist; but contact with those who have no doubts has intensified a thousandfold my own doubts, not as to Communism in itself, but as to the wisdom of holding a creed so firmly that for its sake men are willing to inflict widespread misery.”
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
― The Practice and Theory of Bolshevism
“he divides metaphysics into three parts – rational psychology, concerning the nature of the soul; cosmology, concerning the nature of the universe and our status within it; and theology, concerning the existence of God.”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
“Every rational being must be tempted to think that the peculiar immediacy and inviolability of self-awareness guarantee its content.”
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
― Kant: A Very Short Introduction
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