"(Kant) was averse to noise, twice, changing lodging in order avoid the sound of other people, and once writing indignantly to the director of police, commanding him to prevent the inmates of a nearby prison from consoling themselves with the singing hymns."
(source: Roger Scruton 1997, "Kant" in German Philosophers: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Oxford University Press.)
