Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose Quotes

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

“Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmopolitical Plan

“In what way will our remote posterity be able to cope with the enormous accumulation of historical records which a few centuries will bequeath to them?”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea of a Universal History on a Cosmopolitical Plan

“Aus so krummem Holze, als woraus der Mensch gemacht ist, kann nichts ganz Gerades gezimmert werden.”
― Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose

“Individual men and even entire peoples give little thought to the fact that while each according to this own ways pursues his own ends—often at cross purposes with each other—they unconsciously proceed toward an unknown natural end, as if following a guiding thread; and they work to promote an end they would set little store by, even if they were aware of it.”
― Immanuel Kant , Idea for a Universal History with a Cosmopolitan Purpose