Immanuel Kant Quotes
Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
Quotes to Explore
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Nature can always be more complicated than we imagine.
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I think that all things, in their way, reflect heavenly truth, the imagination not least.
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Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.
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Nature can do more than physicians.
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.
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He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.
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Whether we or our politicians know it or not, Nature is party to all our deals and decisions, and she has more votes, a longer memory, and a sterner sense of justice than we do.
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I think my printing to this day looks like the printing right out of a comic book. Actually, I always wanted to be in a comic book. I watched cartoons when I was a kid, too, and both comics and cartoons lit fire in my imagination. This realm holds a lot of interest for me, a lot of passion for me. So to be comic-ized, yeah, that's cool.
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The physical ego, the active consciousness in man, should uplift its body-identified self into unity with the soul, its true nature; it should not allow itself to remain mired in the lowly delusive strata of the senses and material entanglement.
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Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.
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By its very nature, hard-line ideology is self-serving and self-perpetuating; its primary goal is to survive - and that precludes everything.
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I have no idea why I write. The old standards are: I like to express my feelings, stretch my imagination, earn money.
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I don't know David Cameron very well. I like him. I think you can judge a book by its cover - whoever said you can't is wrong - that's the whole point of nature giving us intuition, instinct and so on. I think the cover is pretty good.
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There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.
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I doubt that the imagination can be suppressed. If you truly eradicated it in a child, he would grow up to be an eggplant.
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You sit up there, and you see the whole gamut of human nature. Even if the case being argued involves only a little fellow and $50, it involves justice. That's what is important.
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I must confess that my imagination refuses to see any sort of submarine doing anything but suffocating its crew and floundering at sea.
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Freedom of the press is guaranteed only to those who own one.
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I refused to learn English for two years when we moved to London, hoping to send my family back home. It was tough, but at the same time, it has given me a sense of displacement that actually really suits the life that I'm living now.
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Reading is like breathing in, writing is like breathing out.
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If you want me in the Hall of Fame put me in because of some contributions that I have made to country music.
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Imagination is a powerful agent for creating, as it were, a second nature out of the material supplied to it by actual nature.
