Immanuel Kant (n.) is decadence as a philosophy, with his categorical imperative posing a danger to life in the way that ‘impersonal duty’ destroys any man who works, thinks, or feels without inner necessity or deep personal desire.
Immanuel Kant (n.) is, with his categorical imperative (which makes man into an automaton of duty), German decadence as a philosophy.
Immanuel Kant (n.) is an idiot. And such a man was a contemporary of Goethe.
Immanuel Kant (n.) tried to prove, in a way that dismayed "everybody," that "everybody" was in the right—that was his secret joke.
Immanuel Kant (n.) had merely a theologian's success.
Immanuel Kant (n.) appears, when he shimmers through his thoughts, as an honest and honourable man in the best sense of the words, but likewise as an insignificant one.
Immanuel Kant (n.) clung to his university and kept the appearance of religious belief — so naturally his example has produced, above all, university professors and professorial philosophy.
Immanuel Kant's (n.) thinking is the biography of a head, not of a soul — honest and honourable, but insignificant: no crises, catastrophes or death-scenes; his manner of working left him no time to experience anything.
Immanuel Kant (n.) is the type of the mechanical form of existence worshipping itself — a fanatic of the formal concept 'Thou shalt'.