Beneficence Quote by Immanuel Kant Download Open image “Beneficence is a duty.” — Immanuel Kant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Beneficence Duty Responsibility
Duty - that which sternly impels us in the direction of profit, along the line of desire. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Duty is that mode of action on the part of the individual which constitutes the best possible application of his capacity to the general… — William Godwin Copy Share Image
Duty itself is supreme delight when love is the inducement and labor. By such a principle the ignorant are enlightened, the hard-hearted softened, the… — Hosea Ballou Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited. — Jane Addams Copy Share Image
The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The indescribable innocence of and beneficence of Nature,-of sun and wind and rain, of summer and winter,-such health, such cheer, they afford forever! — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up… — Arthur Penrhyn Stanley Copy Share Image
To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man… — H. P. Blavatsky Copy Share Image
The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence — Moses Mendelssohn Copy Share Image
In accordance with the divine wisdom, genesis can only take place through destruction, and without destruction of the individual members of the species the… — Maimonides Copy Share Image
I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky! — Saadi Copy Share Image
While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the… — John Quincy Adams Copy Share Image
The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested… — Saint Augustine Copy Share Image
Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs… — Bill Vaughan Copy Share Image
