Immanuel Kant Quotes

Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

Immanuel Kant

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• Sublime
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• Wise choices can put us in control of situations where we might otherwise be tempted to compromise our principles. We cannot control all that happens to us; however, we can choose to be in control of our responses.

  

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• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

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• If you take away the gift of reading, you create the gift of listening.

  

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• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

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• Any film is about heroism: the triumph of good over evil. If you look back at my films, you will see that as a recurring theme.

  

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• Usually people are questioning my athleticism more than my femininity!

  

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• Thinking differently is my strength.

  

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• When I decide I want something, I go in like an Exocet missile.

  

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• I believe the Thai people are patient, and the people at least give me a chance to prove my ability to help them.

  

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• You think you would react one way when a situation develops and, and when the sharp shells are flying, you don't quite stand up like you think you might.

  

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• Working with children has done well for me. I don't find them intolerable or frustrating. They're just fun, full of energy, and happy to be there.

  

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• I went to acting school, but only for nine months. If you're an actor, you know, don't really need to learn how to do it.

  

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• Research confirms that great teachers change lives. Students with one highly effective elementary school teacher are more likely to go to college, less likely to become pregnant as teens, and earn tens of thousands more over their lifetimes.

  

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• If you sit in a bath of pineapple chunks, it can kill you. That's well documented.

  

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• If you're taking an antidepressant, it's working, and you're not experiencing side effects, go on taking it. But if it's not working, or not working well enough, or if you have side effects you don't like, talk to your doctor about an alternative approach.

  

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• Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matter.

  

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• This is not the first time I've charged a person before I've made the case.' - Jim Garrison James Phelan, Scandals, Scamps, and Scoundrels.

  

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• The evolution of humans can not only be seen as the grand total of their wars; it is also defined by the evolution of the human mind and the development of the human consciousness.

  

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• You can live with victory over the desires of your flesh. Habits, attitudes, desires, worries, and dissipation must yield as you exercise authority over your mind, emotions, and will.

  

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• Whereas the beautiful is limited, the sublime is limitless, so that the mind in the presence of the sublime, attempting to imagine what it cannot, has pain in the failure but pleasure in contemplating the immensity of the attempt.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Mind
  • Pleasure
  • Sublime