Immanuel Kant on Love
Browse 3 quotations attributed to Immanuel Kant, catalogued under love, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Immanuel Kant, entry #29515: "A person who already displays … cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart, even in regard to animals."
Attributed to Immanuel Kant, entry #147714: "Beneficence is a duty. He who often practices this, and sees his beneficent purpose succeed, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore, it is said, "…"
3 Quotes by Immanuel Kant on Love
"A person who already displays … cruelty to animals is also no less hardened towards men. We can already know the human heart, even in regard to animals."
"Beneficence is a duty. He who often practices this, and sees his beneficent purpose succeed, comes at last really to love him whom he has benefited. When, therefore, it is said, "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself," this does not mean, "Thou shalt first of all love, and by means of love do him good"; but: "Do good to thy neighbour, and this beneficence will produce in thee the love of men ."
"The more we devote ourselves to observing animals and their behaviour, the more we love them, on seeing how gready they care for their young; in such a context, we cannot even contemplate cruelty to a wolf. Leibnitz put the grub he had been observing back on the tree with its leaf, lest he should be guilty of doing any harm to it. It upsets a man to destroy such a creature for no reason, and this tenderness is subsequendy transferred to man."