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May Quotes by Immanuel Kant
- The science of mathematics presents the most brilliant example of how pure reason may successfully enlarge its domain without the aid of experience
- 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;…
- Democracy is necessarily despotism, as it establishes an executive power contrary to the general will; all being able to decide against one whose opinion may…
- Things which we see are not by themselves what we see ... It remains completely unknown to us what the objects may be by themselves…
- Do what is right, though the world may perish.
- To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of…
- The history of the human race, viewed as a whole, may be regarded as the realization of a hidden plan of nature to bring about…
- No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his happiness in whatever…
- Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
- All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought…
- Look closely. The beautiful may be small.
- So act that anything you do may become universal law.
- May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
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- Quickly, bring me a beaker of wine, so that I may wet my mind and say something clever. — Aristophanes
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- If one way be better than another, that you may be sure is nature's way. — Aristotle
- We make war that we may live in peace. — Aristotle
- Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal, and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind… — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle
- Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked; for if there… — Aristotle
- Pain is temporary. It may last a minute, or an hour, or a day, or a year, but eventually it will subside… — Lance Armstrong