And we know, from the testimony of those who knew him and from his testimony in his letters and private declarations, that the man Kant, the more or less selfish old bachelor who professed philosophy at Königsberg at the end of the century of the Encyclopedia and the goddess of Reason, was a man much preoccupied with the problem-I mean with the only real vital problem, the problem that strikes at the very root of our being, the problem of our individual and personal destiny, of the immortality of the soul.
Eta jakin badakigu, hura ezagutu zutenen aitorpenaz eta beraren aitorpenaz ere bai, beraren gutun eta adierazpen pribatuetan, Kant gizona, berekoia zela-ez-zelako mutilzahar hura, Entziklopediaren eta Arrazoimen jainkoaren mendearen bukaeran Königsbergen filosofia irakasten aritu zena, problemaz oso kezkaturik zegoen gizona zela. Bizitzaren egiazko problema bakarraz esan nahi dut, errai-erraietaraino heltzen zaigunaz, geure banakako patu pertsonalaz, arimaren hilezintasunaz.