The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemp… - Immanuel Kant
""
The more one presupposes that his own power will suffice him to realize what he desires the more practical is that desire. When I treat a man contemptuously, I can inspire him with no practical desire to appreciate my grounds of truth. When I treat any one as worthless, I can inspire him with no desire to do right.
# Civil equality, as the right of the citizen to recognize no one as a superior among the people in relation to himself...; and
The reading of all good books is like a conversation with the finest minds of past centuries.
Only by what a man does heedless of enjoyment, in complete freedom and independently of what he can produce passively from the hand of nature, does he give absolute worth to his existence, as the real existence of a person. Happiness, with all its plethora of pleasures, is far from being an unconditioned good.
