Immanuel Kant Quotes
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During bad circumstances, which is the human inheritance, you must decide not to be reduced. You have your humanity, and you must not allow anything to reduce that. We are obliged to know we are global citizens. Disasters remind us we are world citizens, whether we like it or not.
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There's a kind of emotional exploration you plumb with a friend that you don't really do with your family.
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Dogma is the guardian of mystery. The doctrines are spiritually significant in ways that we cannot fathom.
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That works fine for me . . . Sienna Lauren Snow.
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Everyone always talks about how well mothers know their children. No one ever seems to notice how well children know their mothers.
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There is something tragic about the enormous number of young men there are in England at the present moment who start life with perfect profiles, and end by adopting some useful profession.
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Labor is the true standard of value.
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Creation is the production of order. What a simple, but, at the same time, comprehensive and pregnant principle is here! Plato could tell his disciples no ultimate truth of more pervading significance. Order is the law of all intelligible existence.
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The many are more incorruptible than the few; they are like the greater quantity of water which is less easily corrupted than a little.
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Home is where the heart is, home is where the fart is. Come let us fart in the home. There is no art in a fart. Still a fart may not be artless. Let us fart and artless fart in the home.
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Would you please please please please please please please stop talking?
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No one knows what to say in the loser's locker room.
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Though I am often in the depths of misery, there is still calmness, pure harmony and music inside me. I see paintings or drawings in the poorest cottages, in the dirtiest corners. And my mind is driven towards these things with an irresistible momentum.
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Life can change in an instant. Don't put off the things that are important to you.
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I hope any poem I've ever written could stand on its own and not need to be a part of biography, critical theory or cultural studies. I don't want to give a poetry reading and have to provide the story behind the poem in order for it to make sense to an audience. I certainly don't want the poem to require a critical intermediary - a "spokescritic." I want my poems to be independently meaningful moments of power for a good reader. And that's the expectation I initially bring to other poets' writing.
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Drive him fast to his tomb. This, from Jacques.
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What can I know? What ought I to do? What may I hope?
