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.


Third Thesis - Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)

Immanuel Kant Quotes

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he...

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he...

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he...

Nature has willed that man should, by himself, produce everything that goes beyond the mechanical ordering of his animal existence, and that he...