Regulative Quotes
- As to science, we may well define it for our purpose as "methodical thinking directed toward finding regulative connections between our sensual experiences". — Albert Einstein
- The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the world… — Immanuel Kant
- Religious ideas such as the idea of God have functioned as regulative ideals for us to aspire after: we too could become unified and capable… — Don Cupitt
- Inasmuch as art preserves, with the promise of happiness, the memory of the goal that failed, it can enter, as a 'regulative idea,' the desperate… — Herbert Marcuse
- If you want spiritual life you have to pay the price. The price is the four regulative principles. — Bhakti Charu Swami