Immanuel Kant lived with knowledge as with his lawfully wedded wife, slept with it in the same intellectual bed for forty years an...d begot an entire German race of philosophical systems.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
It was like traveling into a far country, such as I had never expected to behold, to lie there for one night. It seemed to me that... I never had heard the town clock strike before, nor the evening sounds of the village; for we slept with the windows open, which were inside the grating. It was to see my native village in the light of the Middle Ages, and our Concord was turned into a Rhine stream, and visions of knights and castles passed before me. They were the voices of old burghers that I heard in the streets. I was an involuntary spectator and auditor of whatever was done and said in the kitchen of the adjacent village inn,--a wholly new and rare experience to me. It was a closer view of my native town. I was fairly inside of it. I had never seen its institutions before. This is one of its peculiar institutions; for it is a shire town. I began to comprehend what its inhabitants were about.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Nothing can or shall content my soul Till I am evened with him, wife for wife,... Or failing so, yet that I put the Moor At least into a jealousy so strong That judgment cannot cure.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I long for scenes where man has never trod A place where woman never smiled or wept There to abide with my Creator God And sleep a...s I in childhood sweetly slept, Untroubling and untroubled where I lie The grass below, above, the vaulted sky.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
He might go far away out of the sound of the tramp of marching, away from the smell of overcrowded barracks where men slept in row...s like cattle, but he would still be one of them. He would not see an officer pass without an unconscious movement of servility, he would not hear a bugle without feeling sick with hatred. If he could only express these thwarted lives, the miserable dullness of industrialized slaughter, it might have been almost worthwhile--for him; for the others, it would never be worthwhile.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »