Immanuel Kant Quotes

There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

Immanuel Kant

• Body
• Virtue
• Monkish

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• People adored Element 13's color and luster, which reminded them of the sparkle of gold and silver - a brand-new precious metal. In fact, aluminum became more precious than gold and silver in the 19th century because it was harder to obtain.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Color
  • Gold

• I don't think the Middle East could afford another war.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • War
  • Think
  • Middle East

• In every truth, the beneficiaries of a system cannot be expected to destroy it.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Truth
  • System
  • Destroy

• Turquoise is my birthstone; I'm a Sagittarius.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Turquoise

• These days, with 'American Idol' and all the other reality shows, young people become famous overnight, and that can be very difficult to handle, the way photographers follow you around and study your every move.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • People
  • American
  • Reality

• A majority of women's magazines feature women who do amazing things, but then the article focuses on how she ruined it with her shoes.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Women
  • She
  • Amazing

• We are known as one of the few truly antifascist families in Munich.

  

  Karl Amadeus Hartmann
  • Known
  • Few
  • Munich

• This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Life
  • Business
  • Learning

• I've always kept a low profile, and I like it that way.

  

  A. James Clark
  • Way
  • Like
  • Always

• As far as acting goes, you get to a certain point where, I think, everyone can do the job, and it comes down to a level of commitment. I think sometimes all you have to do is show up.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Up
  • Job
  • Acting

• My tastes and inspirational artists were always rather eclectic and diverse.

  

  Taylor Dayne
  • inspirational
  • Rather

• I went through a lot of phases and studied many religions. I am not into religion, I am spiritual.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Spiritual
  • Religion
  • Phases

• When I was a teenager, I really didn't like loud rock music. I listened to jazz and blues and folk music. I've always preferred acoustic music. And it was only, I suppose, by the time Jethro Tull was getting underway that we did let the music begin to have a harder edge, in particular with the electric guitar being alongside the flute.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Time
  • Music
  • Rock

• Now I can walk into a room full of people I don't know and do my job. That's quite a massive thing to learn, I think.

  

  Kate Moss
  • People
  • Job
  • Walk

• The State Marriage Defense Act helps safeguard the ability of states to preserve traditional marriage for their citizens.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Marriage
  • Ability
  • Defense

• We go along, without a fixed itinerary, yet at the same time with an end (what end?) in mind, and with the aim of reaching the end. A search for the end, a dread of the end: the obverse and the reverse of the same act.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Time
  • Mind
  • End

• When I got the role in 'Homeland,' it really opened something up. Other people respected me more as an actor, doors were opened, and I understood for the first time that it wasn't personal. All that rejection wasn't personal.

  

  Zuleikha Robinson
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• This is probably why, my life is easier, and my family is very happy, because we never lie each other. This is probably all people supposed to feel each other, so be always in all of the world they'll be peace.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• While receiving radiation treatment for a thyroid illness, I had refused to take beta-blockers - a medication that would have eased its side effects - because they were deemed illegal by the sport's governing body, the International Association of Athletics Federations.

  Gail Devers
  • Body
  • Illness
  • Medication

• Sometimes small incidents, rather than glorious exploits, give us the best evidence of character. So, as portrait painters are more exact in doing the face, where the character is revealed, than the rest of the body, I must be allowed to give my more particular attention to the marks of the souls of men.

  

  Plutarch
  • Character
  • Body
  • Evidence

• Nature is very clear on this. In fact, there's one fundamental law that all of nature obeys that mankind breaks everyday. Now this is a law that's evolved over billions of years and the law is this: nothing in nature takes more than it needs. A redwood tree doesn't take all of the soil's nutrients, just what it needs to grow. A lion doesn't kill every gazelle, just one. We have a term for something in the body when it takes more than its share. We call it cancer.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Body
  • Tree
  • Everyday

• How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Difference
  • My Mind
  • Cherish

• She had known then that there were things one was more afraid of being without with ease than possessing with pain.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Pain
  • Afraid
  • Possessing

• There is no virtue in penance and fasting which waste the body; they are only fanatical and monkish.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Body
  • Virtue
  • Monkish