Here as elsewhere human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way.
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Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "Die menschliche Vernunft hat hier, wie allerwärts in ihrem reinen Gebrauche, so lange es ihr an Kritik fehlt, vorher alle mögliche unrechte Wege versucht, ehe es ihr gelingt, den einzigen wahren zu treffen." in the context of "Here as elsewhere human reason in its pure use, so long as it was not critically examined, has first tried all possible wrong ways before it succeeded in finding the one true way." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785): German: Grundlegung zur Metaphysik der Sitten)
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