Iqbal, that great poet, was so right. The moment you recognize what is beautiful in this world, you stop being a slave. To hell with the Naxals and their guns shipped from China. If you taught every poor boy how to paint, that would be the end of the rich in India.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. - Immanuel Kant
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. - Immanuel Kant
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. - Immanuel Kant
There is something splendid about innocence; but what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself very well and is easily seduced. - Immanuel Kant
The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life. - Immanuel Kant
Genius is the ability to independently arrive at and understand concepts that would normally have to be taught by another person. - Immanuel Kant
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. - Immanuel Kant
Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt. - Immanuel Kant
Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. - Immanuel Kant
For peace to reign on Earth, humans must evolve into new beings who have learned to see the whole first. - Immanuel Kant
Space and time are the framework within which the mind is constrained to construct its experience of reality. - Immanuel Kant
All false art, all vain wisdom, lasts its time but finally destroys itself, and its highest culture is also the epoch of its decay. - Immanuel Kant
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose. - Immanuel Kant
The humiliating difference between laymen and clergymen must disappear, and equality spring from true liberty. - Immanuel Kant
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom. - Isaac Asimov
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