Quote of Immanuel Kant - The beautiful is the symbol of...
Biography - Immanuel Kant:
German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
The beautiful is the symbol of the morally good.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about beauty:
Quotes for: good
Quotes for: morality
Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.
Quotes for: symbol
Words are but symbols for the relations of things to one another and to us; nowhere do they touch upon absolute truth.
Letters are signs of things, symbols of words, whose power is so great that without a voice they speak to us the words of the absent.
Nature is a temple in which living columns sometimes emit confused words. Man approaches it through forests of symbols, which observe him with familiar glances.
One characteristic of the symbol is that it is never wholly arbitrary; it is not empty, for there is the rudiment of a natural bond between the signifier and the signified. The symbol of justice, a pair of scales, could not be replaced by just any other symbol, such as a chariot.
My thought is part of the meaning of the world, and hence I use a part of the world as a symbol to express my thought.
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