Immanuel Kant on Veterans Day
1724–1804 Germany
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3 quotes
Sapere aude! Have the courage to use your own understanding.
What is Enlightenment? (1784)
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.
Eternal Peace (1795)
All wars are accordingly so many attempts (not in the intention of man, but in the intention of Nature) to establish new relations among states, and through the destruction or at least the dismemberment of all of them to create new political bodies, which, again, either internally or externally, cannot maintain themselves and which must thus suffer like revolutions; until finally, through the best possible civic constitution and common agreement and legislation in external affairs, a state is created which, like a civic commonwealth, can maintain itself automatically.
Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)