Immanuel Kant Quotes

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Philosopher | April 22, 1724 - February 12, 1804
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In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.
Immanuel Kant
Let's go for a drive OK? Well I'll go for a drive, you'll go for a ride. The person who drives the car they go for a drive, the other people they go for a ride. People don't know that, tell them when they're in your car. Say "you assholes are goin' for a ride!
George Carlin
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Truth is the light
So you never give up the fight.
Bob Marley
Walter Scott has no business to write novels, especially good ones. It is not fair. He has fame and profit enough as a poet, and should not be taking the bread out of other people's mouths. I do not like him, and do not mean to like Waverley if I can help it, but fear I must.
Jane Austen
This discipline and rough treatment are a furnace to extract the silver from the dross. This testing purifies the gold by boiling the scum away.
Rumi
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
Bertrand Russell
And it doesn't seem to matter, and it doesn't seem right,
'Cause the will has brought no fortune, still I cry alone at night,
Don't you judge of my composure, 'cause I'm bothered every day,
And she didn't leave a letter, she just up and ran away.
Michael Jackson
So let me ask you something: how's everybody doing tonight, huh? (audience cheers) Good, well, fuck you! Just trying to make you feel at home.
George Carlin
Hannah: Life could be wonderful if people would leave you alone.
Charlie Chaplin
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?It’ pretty hard for the Lord to guide you if you haven’t made up your mind which way to go.”
Madam C. J. Walker
Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.
Zig Ziglar
They were walking side by side, but each was alone.
Simone de Beauvoir
The opposite of work is idleness. But very few of us know what to do with idleness. When you look at the way that we distribute our lives in general, you realize that in the periods in which we have a lot of money, we have very little time. And then when we finally have time, we have neither the money nor the health.
Ricardo Semler
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My approach to politics is that I never said I'm smart. But why aren't I allowed to write about my experience?
M.I.A.
Oumou Sangare embodies this alluring dichotomy like no one else. She’s the epitome of tough femininity; beautiful, elegant, determined, independent, talented…and, well, hard
Oumou Sangaré
By the way, what have you done that's so great? Do you create anything, or just criticize others work and belittle their motivations?
Steve Jobs