Immanuel Kant Quotes

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.

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• We were descended from royalty.

  

  Natalie Wood
  • Royalty
  • Were
  • Descended

• I haven't actually studied acting at all.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Acting
  • Actually
  • Studied

• Adopting the right attitude can convert a negative stress into a positive one.

  

  Hans Selye
  • Positive
  • Attitude
  • Stress

• I think that when we strip people down, most of us want the same things. People just have very different views of how to get there.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • People
  • Different
  • Think

• The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.

  

  Lascelles Abercrombie
  • Age
  • Reason
  • Poetry

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• People are always the start for me... animals, when I can get into their heads, gods, supernatural beings, immortals, the dead... these are all people to me.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • People
  • Animals
  • Gods

• For me, music was the only reason I went to school. I was kind of a street kid, in a lot of trouble committing crimes and stuff. Music gave me something to focus on.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Music
  • School
  • Focus

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• No Afghans, as far as we know, have been involved in terrorist acts against our country. We shouldn't be swatting at hornets' nests we know nothing about.

  

  Gary Goetzman
  • Country
  • Know
  • Nothing

• If Wal-Mart invests a billion dollars and others invest $100 million, Wal-Mart is going to grow more.

  

  Carlos Slim
  • Grow
  • Others
  • Invest

• It's easy when you have suffered to feel the link with what others have gone through.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • You
  • Feel
  • Easy

• I used to a lot. I used to go dancing.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Used
  • Dancing
  • Go

• I want to see more sports in schools.

  

  Saina Nehwal
  • Want
  • Sports
  • See

• I did 'Mad Men' and I still have people come up to me like, 'Are you actually a lesbian?' Really? Just because I play one on TV? People will think what they're gonna think.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • People
  • Think
  • Play

• Quarterbacks need to make their team better. If it's a bad team, they can even make a bad team better.

  

  Fran Tarkenton
  • Bad
  • Team
  • Better

• Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.

  

  Fabrizio Moreira
  • People
  • Law
  • Going

• We're not handling things anymore before they arrive on our doorstep. I like to feel how thin porcelain can be, run my hand over a textile, see if I want to sit in a chair.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Want
  • Hand
  • Feel

• But if in vain, down on the stubborn floor Of Earth, and up to Heav'n's unopening Door You gaze To-day, while You are You - how then To-morrow, You when shall be You no more?

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Door

• Globalization has genuinely drained power away from national politicians and people feel it. People in our fast digital age are also frustrated with the comparably slow democratic processes. Many young people - and some old people - want to know, Why does everything take so long? Why can't someone just decide and then move forward?

  

  Anne Applebaum
  • Politicians
  • Globalization
  • Processes

• Black women voted against Roy Moore not because they necessarily wanted the other guy; they voted against Roy Moore because they knew that would be better for the people of Alabama and, to be frank, better for the rest of the country.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Women
  • Country

• It is an eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Truth
  • Political
  • Suffering

• Acting is like sex, it’s possible if your partner is bad, but it’s better if they’re good.

  

  Xavier Samuel
  • Bad
  • Sex
  • Acting

• 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
  • Earth