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What is man?
On Women
Feminine ways are called weaknesses. One jokes
about them; fools ridicule them, but reasonable people
see very well that they are just the levers women use for
governing men and using them for their own purposes.
As concerns scholarly women, they use their books
somewhat like their watch, that is, they carry one so that
it will be seen that they have one; though it is usually not
running or not set by the sun.
On Innocence
There is something splendid about innocence; but
what is bad about it, in turn, is that it cannot protect itself
very well and is easily seduced.
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II
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On Men and Women
The bravery of a woman consists of the patient bearing of evil for the sake of honour or love. That of a man
in the eagerness to defiantly drive it [evil] away.
It is ridiculous that through understanding and large
income a man wants to make a woman fall in love with
him.
A man must depend on no one else so that the wife
depends entirely on him.
The man has his own taste, the woman makes herself
the object of everyone's taste.
A married woman becomes free; a married man loses
his freedom.
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II
III
IV
V
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What is man?
Our current constitution makes it so that women can
also live without men, which ruins everything.
One can feel healthy (judging by the comfortable
feeling of one’s life) but can never know that one is.
Recollecting oneself (collectio animi) in order to be
ready for every new occupation promotes mental health
by restoring the balance between one's powers of soul.
The bed is a nest for a whole flock of illnesses.
VI
On Health
I
II
III
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A reason why the idea of death does not have the effect
that it could is because as busy creatures by nature we are
hardly meant to think about it at all.
On Pleasure and Pain
... pain must always precede every enjoyment; pain
is always first. For what else but a quick death from joy
would follow from a continuous promotion of the vital
force, which cannot be raised above a certain degree
anyway?
Pain is the incentive of activity, and in this, above all,
we feel our life; without pain lifelessness would set in.
One way of enjoying ourselves is also a way of cultivating ourselves; that is, increasing the capacity for
having more enjoyment of this kind, and this applies to
On Death
I
II
III
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What is man?
the sciences and the fine arts. However, another way is
overindulgence, which makes us increasingly less capable of further enjoyment.
The Arcadian shepherd’s life and our chivalrous life
of the court are both in bad taste and unnatural though
alluring. For true pleasure cannot take place when it is
done out of occupation.
IV
On Being Civilized
... the more civilized human beings are, the more
they are actors. They adopt the illusion of affection, of
respect for others, of modesty, and of unselfishness
without deceiving anyone at all, because it is understood
by everyone that nothing is meant sincerely by that. And
it is also very good that this happens in the world.
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On Man’s Ends
What are the ends that are also duties?
They are one's own perfection and the happiness of
others.
…if there is a final end, which reason must indicate a
priori, this end can be nothing other than a human being
(every rational being in the world) guided by moral law.
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II
III
... filling our time by means of methodical, progressive occupations that lead to an important and intended
end... — is the only sure means of becoming happy with
one's life and, at the same time, weary of life.
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Notes
NOTES
This collection of Kant’s aphorisms was initially compiled
in Russian by Prof. Vladimir Bryushinkin for the edition:
I. Kant. Izrecheniya, Kaliningrad, Knizhnoye Izdatel’stvo, 2001.
The English translations were collected by Vadim Chaly, those
unavailable were translated by Anna Bryushinkina, who also
edited the English texts. New English translations were edited
by Prof. Robert Howell (State University of New York).
The English translations of Kant’s works are cited according to:
1) Cambridge Edition:
v1 – Theoretical Philosophy, 1755-1770. Cambridge:
CUP, 1992.
v2 – Critique of Pure Reason. Cambridge: CUP, 1998.
v3 – Theoretical Philosophy after 1781. Cambridge: CUP,
2002.
v4 – Practical Philosophy. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
v6 – Religion and Rational Theology. Cambridge: CUP, 1996.
v9 – Lectures on Logic. Cambridge: CUP, 1992.
v11 – Lectures on Ethics. Cambridge: CUP, 1997.
Anth – Anthropology from a pragmatic point of view.
Cambridge: CUP, 2006.
They are presented in the notes as follows: СЕ, 1, 34 for
the first volume, etc.
2) The English translation of Kant’s treatise “Bemerkungen zu den Beobachtungen über das Gefühl des Schönen und
Erhabenen” Remarks on the Observations on the Feeling of the
Beautiful and Sublime. Translated by Matt Cooley and Patrick
Frierson. Whitman College, 2005, located on the web-site:
http://people.whitman.edu/~frierspr/kants_bemerkungen1.htm,
this translation is referred to as ‘Remarks’.
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3) Some English translations of biographic remarks are
cited according to Cassirer E. Kant’s Life and Thought. Trans.
by James Haden. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981,
they are referred to as: Cas, 13.
4) Kant on Education. Boston, 1900. Reference: Educ, 108.
5) The translation of Kant’s aphorisms produced by Anna
Bryushinkina for this edition are referred to as AnnaBryu.
6) CofJ = Immanuel Kant, The Critique of Judgement,
translated with Introduction and Notes by J.H. Bernard (2nd
ed. revised) (London: Macmillan, 1914).
7) The excerpts from Kant’s treatise “What is Enlightenment?”
are cited in accordance with the translation located on the website:
http://www.english.upenn.edu/~mgamer/Etexts/kant.html. Reference: Enl.
8) Kant’s treatise “The Conflict of the Faculties” is cited
in accordance with the English translation: Kant I. The Conflict of the Faculties, University of Nebraska Press, 1992.
Reference: Conflict, 138.
Page indices by chapters
№
п/п
III 7 AnnaBryu
IV 8 AnnaBryu
VI 8 AnnaBryu
VII 8 AnnaBryu
Page Source
ON HIMSELF
I 7 Remarks
II 7 Cas, 13.
V 8 AnnaBryu
ON PHILOSOPHY AND PHILOSOPHERS
I 9 CE, 3, 99
II 9 9, 538
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Notes
III 10 AnnaBryu
IV 10 CE, 9, 539
V 10 CE, 1, 255
VI 10 CE, 4, 338
VII 11 CE, 3, 114
VIII 11 CE, 9, 538
IX 11 CE, 4, 158
ON KÖNIGSBERG
12 CE, Anth, 4
ON REASON AND UNDERSTANDING
I 15 CE, 2, 152
II 15 CE, 2, 193
III 15 CE, 2, 387
IV 15 AnnaBryu
V 16 CE, 2, 195—196
VI 16 CE, 3, 112
VII 16 CE, 3, 109
VIII 16 CE, Anthr., 90
ON TRUTH AND DELUSION
I 17 CE, 3, 197
II 17 CE, 3, 384
III 17 CE, 3, 385
IV 18 CE, 3, 355
V 18 Remarks
ON NATURE
I 18 CE, 9, 527
II 19 CE, 3, 466
III 19 CE, 4, 114
IV 19 AnnaBryu
ON THINGS IN THEMSELVES
I 19—20 CE, 3, 185
II 20 CE, 4, 82
III 20 CE, 4, 107—108
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ON COGNITION AND EXPERIENCE
I 21 CE, 3, 106
II 21 CE, 3, 137
III 21 CE, 3, 140
IV 21 CE, 3, 111
V 21 CE, 3, 633
VI 22 CE, 3, 622
ON KNOWLEDGE AND FAITH
I 22 CE, 3, 355
II 22 CE, 3, 686
III 22 CE, 3, 686
IV 23 CE, 3, 117
I 23 CE, 3, 183
II 23 CE, 3, 692
III 23 CE, 3, 119
IV 24 CE, 3, 107
V 24 CE, Anth., 231
VI 24 Remarks
I 27 CE, 4, 209
II 27 CE, 4, 55
III 27 CE, 4, 211
I 28 CE, 4, 338
II 28 CE, 4, 244
III 28 Remarks
IV 28 Remarks
ON THE MORAL LAW
I 29 CE, 4, 269
II 29 Educ., 108
ON SCIENCE
ON DUTY
ON MORALS
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