One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness.

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "One cannot suppress a certain indignation when one sees men’s actions on the great world-stage and finds, beside the wisdom that appears here and there among individuals, everything in the large woven together from folly, childish vanity, even from childish malice and destructiveness." in the context of "Immanuel Kant, Idea for a Universal History from a Cosmopolitan Point of View (1784)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.