Beneficence Quote by Immanuel Kant

“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 he has done good.” quote by Immanuel Kant — Download Open image

“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 he has done good.”

Immanuel Kant

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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

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Private beneficence is totally inadequate to deal with the vast numbers of the city's disinherited.

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The moral duty of man consists of imitatingthe moral goodness and beneficence of God,manifested in the creation, toward all His creatures.

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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!

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That is a true sentiment which makes us feel that we do not love our country less, but more, because we have laid up…

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To act and act wisely when the time for action comes, to wait and wait patiently when it is time for repose, put man in accord with the rising and falling tides (of affairs). So that with nature and law at his back, and truth and beneficence as his beacon light, he may accomplish wonders. Ignorance of this law results…

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The state has physical power and uses it when necessary; the power of religion is love and beneficence

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I cannot persuade myself that a beneficient and omnipotent God would have designedly created...that a cat should play with mice.

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Wherever the tree of beneficence takes root, it sends forth branches beyond the sky!

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While dwelling with pleasing satisfaction upon the superior excellence of our political institutions, let us not be unmindful that liberty is power; that the nation blessed with the largest portion of liberty must in proportion to its numbers be the most powerful nation upon earth, and that the tenure of power by man is, in the moral purposes of his…

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The fruits of charity are joy, peace, and mercy; charity demands beneficence and fraternal correction; it is benevolence; it fosters reciprocity and remains disinterested…

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Every man who becomes heartily and understandingly a channel of the Divine beneficence is enriched through every league of his life. Perennial satisfaction springs around and within him with perennial verdure. Flowers of gratitude and gladness bloom all along his pathway, and the melodious gurgle of the blessings be bears is echoed back by the melodious waves of the recipient…

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