Kant is among the first philosophers to view conception of humility as "that meta-attitude which constitutes the moral agent's proper perspective on himself as a dependent and corrupt but capable and dignified rational agent".
Self-importance is man's greatest enemy. What weakens him is the feeling of being offended by the deeds and misdeeds of his fellow men. Self-importance requires that one spend most of one's life offended by something or someone
The capacity to be in awe of that which we cannot explain... That, I think, is what the greater part of humility is. The capacity to be open to something greater than oneself. False humility is the pretence that one is small. True humility is the consciousness of standing in the presence of the divine, which is why it is the virtue of prophets, those who feel most vividly the nearness of God.
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A lifestyle experiment ¤ an inquiry into values ¤ a surrender ¤ a moral acid test ¤ an old fashioned adventure, and all this, while trodding through this Babylon shitstem.
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