Kant and the wineglass

A charmingly odd little anecdote from Herzberg’s staggering survey of the inhibitions of the great philosophers:

“When, for example, [Kant’s] servant once broke a wineglass, he asked that the splinters should be buried so that nobody might be cut by them. He did not, however, venture to entrust the task to his servant but asked his guests to perform it. So they went out into the garden and looked for a sufficiently unfrequented spot. Kant, however, objected to every proposal ‘on the ground that someone might hurt himself, until at length a spot was found by the side of an old wall and a deep hole dug in which the splinters were carefully buried in our presence.'”