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Him Quotes by Immanuel Kant
- Reason must approach nature with the view, indeed, of receiving information from it, not, however, in the character of a pupil, who listens to all…
- Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature…
- Beneficence is a duty. He who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized, at length comes really to love him to whom he…
- cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a…
- [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
- If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward;…
- Beneficence is a duty; and he who frequently practices it, and sees his benevolent intentions realized comes, at length, really to love him to whom…
- The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can…
- Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity.
- The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman.…
- The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend — and we cannot comprehend God; we can only…
- One who makes himself a worm cannot complain afterwards if people step on him.
- It is the Land of Truth (enchanted name!), surrounded by a wide and stormy ocean, the true home of illusion, where many a fog bank…
- Freedom is the alone unoriginated birthright of man, and belongs to him by force of his humanity; and is independence on the will and co-action…
- Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as…
More Him Quotes
- I'm hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I'd be pulling… — Hank Aaron
- I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who conquers his enemies; for the hardest victory is over self. — Aristotle
- A tyrant must put on the appearance of uncommon devotion to religion. Subjects are less apprehensive of illegal treatment from a ruler… — Aristotle
- Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are… — Karen Armstrong
- There is in every madman a misunderstood genius whose idea, shining in his head, frightened people, and for whom delirium was the… — Antonin Artaud
- To insult someone we call him 'bestial. For deliberate cruelty and nature, 'human' might be the greater insult. — Isaac Asimov
- Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he is willing… — Bashar al-Assad
- If a superior give any order to one who is under him which is against that man's conscience, although he do not… — Francis of Assisi
- When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because… — Chinua Achebe
- When I was doing Bean more than I've done him in the last few years, I did strange things - like appearing… — Rowan Atkinson
- Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
- Fame often makes a writer vain, but seldom makes him proud. — Wystan Hugh Auden