"All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?"
- Immanuel Kant
About this Quote
In this quote, Immanuel Kant is stating that all of his intellectual pursuits and concerns can be distilled into 3 fundamental questions: what can he know, what actions are morally needed of him, and what results can he anticipate. This suggests that Kant is focused on the basic nature of human understanding, behavior, and goals, and that he thinks that coming to grips with these questions is vital to understanding the nature of human experience and presence.
"One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has"
"Well, I think any time you delve into this sort of religion, politics, as you well know, you're going to, you know, touch a few nerves. I wasn't - now - and this is the honest truth"
