Immanuel Kant: Papers Read at Northwestern University on the Bicentenary of Kant's Birth

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Open Court Publishing Company, 1925 - 211 páginas
 

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Página 94 - Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them : the starry heavens above and the moral law within.
Página 97 - STRONG Son of God, immortal Love, Whom we, that have not seen thy face, By faith, and faith alone, embrace, Believing where we cannot prove; Thine are these orbs of light and shade; Thou madest Life in man and brute ; Thou madest Death; and lo, thy foot Is on the skull which thou hast made. Thou wilt not leave us in the dust: Thou madest man, he knows not why, He thinks he was not made to die; And thou hast made him: thou art just.
Página 188 - Thammuz came next behind, Whose annual wound in Lebanon allured The Syrian damsels to lament his fate In amorous ditties all a summer's day, While smooth Adonis from his native rock Ran purple to the sea, supposed with blood Of Thammuz yearly wounded...
Página 64 - Natur und Kunst, sie scheinen sich zu fliehen, Und haben sich, eh man es denkt, gefunden: Der Widerwille ist auch mir verschwunden, Und beide scheinen gleich mich anzuziehen. Es gilt Wohl nur ein redliches Bemühen! Und wenn wir erst, in abgemeßnen Stunden, Mit Geist und Fleiß uns an die Kunst gebunden.
Página 84 - on the earth there is nothing great but man, and in man, there is nothing great but mind...
Página 64 - So ist's mit aller Bildung auch beschaffen: Vergebens werden ungebundne Geister Nach der Vollendung reiner Höhe streben. Wer Großes will, muß sich zusammenraffen; In der Beschränkung zeigt sich erst der Meister, Und das Gesetz nur kann uns Freiheit geben.
Página 20 - ... it; what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kindred with the inclinations; a root to be derived from which is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?
Página 20 - Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating but requirest submission and yet seekest not to move the will by threatening aught that would arouse natural aversion or terror, but only boldest forth a law which of itself finds entrance into the mind and yet gains reluctant reverence...
Página 20 - ... what origin is there worthy of thee, and where is to be found the root of thy noble descent which proudly rejects all kinship with the inclinations and from which to be descended is the indispensable condition of the only worth which men can give themselves?
Página 142 - Freedom is independence of the compulsory will of another; and in so far as it can coexist with the freedom of all according to a universal law, it is the one sole original, inborn right belonging to every man in virtue of his humanity.

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