Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 52
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The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.
— Immanuel Kant
What It Means
This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity." in the context of "Part III : Selection on Education from Kant's other Writings, Ch. I Pedagogical Fragments, # 52" to mean that wisdom is timeless.
Source: Wikiquote: "Immanuel Kant" (Quotes, The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904): Quotes of Kant as translated in The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant (1904) by Edward Franklin Buchner )
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