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Immanuel Kant

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KEN NDARU Thus he has two standpoints from which he can consider himself...: first, as belonging to the world ...
IMMANUEL KANT Horror as for me is the best choice, you can gain a lot of. I like to be afraid like to see this shi...
DEYTH BANGER It is what it is, it is what you make it.
JAMES DURBIN I respond well to what I read of Immanuel Kant's idea that the world as we see it is absolutely ...
BERNARD BECKETT See the world for what it is.
BEAUTIFUL!
ANTHONY T. HINCKS Immanuel Kant famously claimed that 'he who wills the ends wills the means,' but he never sp...
ELLIOTT ABRAMS It’s an already inside outside,
The philosophers say it’s the soul
But it’s not the ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO I am Happy and satisfied with what I am. 10000 will take me wrong, 1000 will go against me, 100 will...
NEHA KOTHARI If our mind was an ocean then every now and then we would have the perfect storm happening in it.Gar...
GARY F EVANS... I saw that there is no Nature,
That Nature doesn’t exist,
That there are hills, valleys,...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Empirical interest will be in the facts so far as they are relevant to the solution of these problem...
TALCOTT PARSONS No one knows who wrote the laws of physics or where they come from. Science is based on testable, re...
MICHIO KAKU I regret that I wasn't more successful with my marriages, but it is what it is.
TED TURNER To stand on the
brink of what is coming, feeling eager, optimistic anticipation—with no feeli...
ASK AND IT IS GIVEN In so far as such a theory is empirically correct it will also tell us what empirical facts it shoul...
TALCOTT PARSONS Kant introduced the concept of the negative into philosophy. Would it not also be worthwhile to try ...
KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL Integrity is not everything, but it is the only thing that matters.
JEFFREY FRY Conservatism is the antidote to tyranny. It's the only one. It's based on thousands of years of huma...
MARK R. LEVIN As far as love is concerned, possession, power, fusion and disenchantment are the Four Horsemen of t...
ZYGMUNT BAUMAN What Pascal overlo...
WALTER KAUFMANN The man stopped talking and was looking at the sunset.
But what does someone who hates and love...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is a lie.
ARTHUR MILLER Kant is the last person in the world whom we should read on Kant.
WILL DURANT The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based...
HARRY FORBES The PBS philosophy is to keep the best and reinvent the rest, and MPT is taking the initiative based...
HARRY FORBES That my philosophy of life is, as far as possible, one of enjoyment. I'm not nihilistic.
ALEXANDER MCCALL SMITH Unpredictability means what it means. I don't know how you define it. It is what it is.
MICHAEL KEATON Each piece, or part, of the whole of nature is always merely an approximation to the complete truth,...
RICHARD P. FEYNMAN Any religion or philosophy, which is not based on a respect for life is not a true religion or philo...
ALBERT SCHWEITZER Pressure is showing on the BMC they want to ban a lot of things and bring down a lot of things. The ...
APURVA GAGLANI Contemporary science is based on the philosophy of materialism, which claims that all reality is mat...
RUPERT SHELDRAKE I consider a dream like I consider a shadow,” answered Caeiro, with his usual divine, unexpected p...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS It is one thing for the human mind to extract from the phenomena of nature the laws which it has its...
ARTHUR EDDINGTON There is no such thing as political science, but there are tenancies so strong that they might as we...
JEFF GREENFIELD Morality and righteousness is based on intent, love, and in giving; yet, how is it that we as humans...
FORREST CURRAN Sex without love is a meaningless experience, but as far as meaningless experiences go its pretty da...
WOODY ALLEN It is what it is, and it ain't nothin' else... Everything is clearly, openly, plainly delive...
DAN FLAVIN With '10,000,' our aim was to make a film that was entertaining and a roller-coaster ride; i...
STEVEN STRAIT Intelligent design relies on physical, empirical, observable evidence from nature plus logical infer...
MICHAEL BEHE The aim of philosophy, abstractly formulated, is to understand how things in the broadest possible s...
WILFRID SELLARS It is generally believed that our science is empirical and that we draw our concepts and our mathema...
WERNER HEISENBERG If I knew I was going to die tomorrow,
And Spring came the day after tomorrow,
I would die...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Between what i see in a field and what I see in another field
There passes for a moment the fig...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Do I believe a thing has limits!? Of course! Nothing exists that doesn’t have limits. Existence me...
ÁLVARO DE CAMPOS Love is based on imagination.
OLIVIER MARTINEZ You know, I don't think my music is important, I don't think it's changing the world, I ...
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ANDY BOCHMAN Justice based purely on laws is about as accurate as a portrait created out of large low-resolution ...
VERA NAZARIAN Life is not all about sticking or stopping your thoughts to old memories but LIFE STARTS when you st...
NEHA KOTHARI This is too much reality for a Friday.
AS GOOD AS IT GETS To question reason is to trust it.
MITCH STOKES So far as the government is concerned, there is only one holy book, which is the constitution of Ind...
NARENDRA MODI Even so, I’m somebody.
I’m the Discoverer of Nature.
I’m the Argonaut of true sensat...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Our life is a series of moments. Let them all go. Moments. All gathering towards this one.
NOW IS GOOD Nature is based on harmony. So it says if we want to survive and become more like nature, then we ac...
BRUCE LIPTON The Copernican revolution brought about by Kant was, I think, the most important single turning poin...
BRYAN MAGEE Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking ...
JOSE PADILHA I never like it when a celebrity goes on Twitter and says, 'This isn't true!' It is what...
HARRY STYLES Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a deter...
MICHAEL R. LEGAULT All the mathematical sciences are founded on relations between physical laws and laws of numbers, so...
JAMES C. MAXWELL There is an element of autobiography in all fiction in that pain or distress, or pleasure, is based ...
WILLIAM TREVOR When I die it will be game over,... but I know one life is short, to be selfish is not the best deci...
DEYTH BANGER What comes, when it comes, will be what it is.
ALBERTO CAEIRO Night doesn’t fall for my eyes
But my idea of the night is that it falls for my eyes.
Be...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Scientific research is based on the idea that everything that takes place is determined by laws of n...
ALBERT EINSTEIN ... one of the immutable laws of being human is that the people who show up are the right people. [p...
ANNE LAMOTT Men act like brutes in so far as the sequences of their perceptions arise through the principle of m...
GOTTFRIED LEIBNIZ Things don’t have significance: they only have existence.
Things are the only hidden meaning ...
ALBERTO CAEIRO We all are wearing many hundred glasses of different colors. Therefore, everyone sees the world in d...
MUDITHA CHAMPIKA Both state and church have as their object actions as well as convictions, the former insofar as the...
MOSES MENDELSSOHN My philosophy is really based on humility. I don't think we know enough to fix either diagnostic...
THOMAS R. INSEL Science is the ultimate tool to reveal the laws of nature, and the one word written on its banner is...
DAN SHECHTMAN Life: It is better not to wrap philosophy around such an inconceivable evolving beautiful mystery. I...
T.F. HODGE A writer must always try to have a philosophy and he should also have a psychology and a philology a...
GERTRUDE STEIN Education is the instruction of the intellect in the laws of Nature.
THOMAS HENRY HUXLEY The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Laws of Nature are just, but terrible. There is no weak mercy in them. Cause and consequence are...
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human natu...
PHYLLIS SCHLAFLY Many people think that love represents chains, bondage, the opposite of freedom. But people who beli...
C. JOYBELL C. I was born subject like others to errors and defects,
But never to the error of wanting to unde...
ALBERTO CAEIRO Accept the universe
As the gods gave it to you.
If the gods wanted to give you something e...
ALBERTO CAEIRO It is absolutely impossible to transcend the laws of nature. What can change in historically differe...
KARL MARX For my Oxford degree, I had to translate French and German philosophy (as it turned out, Descartes a...
PAUL ENGLE There is a current perception is that science has overtaken Philosophy and in effect rendered Philos...
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PATTI PAWLING Nothing is too wonderful to be true, if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAY Nothing is too wonderful to be true if it be consistent with the laws of nature.
MICHAEL FARADAY There was no Jace Wayland more real than the one he saw in her eyes when she looked at him.
CASSANDRA CLARE To search the sands of a lost desert for truth and justice in this world today you might as well be ...
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GEOFF VAUGHAN The secret of my success is my hairspray.
RICHARD GERE Love is blind, and a deaf-mute too.
PATRICK ROTHFUSS The king may rule the kingdom, but it's the queen who moves the board.
D.M. TIMNEY For an optimist, life is full of opportunity. For a pessimist, life is full of adversity. Life is wh...
DEBASISH MRIDHA Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity an...
KAHLIL GIBRAN We dream because that's what life is.
Anything else and it would be a nightmare.
ANTHONY T. HINCKS All theological language is necessarily analogical, but it was singularly unfortunate that the Churc...
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