Immanuel Kant Quotes
Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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I wanted my children to have the same exposure to the water I had. My strongest memories of Northeast Harbor are going in a small Whaler with my dad, looking for osprey.
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Palestinian propagandists can say and do anything they please without concern for the truth, in the belief that if they repeat it often enough it will simply become the truth.
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The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
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For me, a play is a form of writing which isn't complete until it is interpreted by actors. But it's still a form of writing. And so most of my time is spent thinking about how to write a sentence.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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I have this theory that people in Hollywood don't read. They read 'Vanity Fair' and then consider themselves terribly well read. I think I can basically write about anybody without getting caught.
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Inspiration exists, but it has to find us working.
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It is not known, now, for what length of time the Tuatha de Danaan had the sway over Ireland, and it is likely it was a long time they had it, but they were put from it at last.
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.
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I'm known as a kind of dramatic, serious, almost humorless actor and the fact is, I'm a funny guy, and I spend most of my life trying to find a lighter side of things, and on stage was given plenty of opportunity to do that.
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We must overcome the notion that we must be regular... it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary and leads you to the mediocre.
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Luck is going to play a huge part in your life.
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
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I like to say it's an attitude of not just thinking outside the box, but not even seeing the box.
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Shows have been sold out. It's overwhelming, you know. I had no idea what to expect with this new sound and everything and just to see so many people just come out and embrace it, it's overwhelming.
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I sometimes wonder if I might be a bit of a disappointment to people, because they are expecting all these '80s hits and what they get is a dark industrial wall of noise.
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The Fayyad cabinet may well be the best the Palestinians ever get. But whatever its good qualities, there is no democracy.
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I just got a body wave because I wanted it to look good when it was down.
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Reality's all you've got. But here's the real secret, the real miracle: it's enough.
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If reality is not what you want it to be, change it.
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The only thing that I discovered very early on is that, even though we might change schools and cities and towns and states, the books in the library were the same. They had the same covers. They had the same characters. I could go and visit those people in the library as if I knew them.
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Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final purpose.
