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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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 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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Our minds and memories are crowded with the common experience of nature.
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It is literature which for me opened the mysterious and decisive doors of imagination and understanding. To see the way others see. To think the way others think. And above all, to feel.
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When you're curious, you find lots of interesting things to do.
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I love music so much, and I love musicians - I love singers. It's fun. That's what music's supposed to be. Fun.
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Through my years as a writer, I've learnt how to simplify the message and pen songs that have a more specific quality - it's not just about my ego and trying to meet girls.
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All that we have read and learned, all that has occupied and interested us in the thoughts and deeds of men abler or wiser than ourselves, constitutes at last a spiritual society of which we can never be deprived, for it rests in the heart and soul of the man who has acquired it.
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Life seems but a quick succession of busy nothings.
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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.
