Immanuel Kant Quotes

Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

Immanuel Kant

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• Research has shown that time pressure leads to tunnel vision and that people think more creatively when they are calm, unhurried and free from stress and distractions. We all know this from experience.

  

  Carl Honore
  • People
  • Time
  • Experience

• Some of the greatest moments in human history were fueled by emotional intelligence.

  

  Adam Grant
  • History
  • Moments
  • Emotional

• Artists look at the environment, and the best artists correctly diagnose the problem. I'm not saying artists can't be leaders, but that's not the job of art, to lead. Bob Marley, Nina Simone, Harry Belafonte - there are artists all through history who have become leaders, but that was already in them, nothing to do with their art.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Job
  • History

• Are we not witnessing a situation where children are conciously rejecting their parents' value despite love and devotion given to them? The present situation has arisen because parents have failed to transmit a sustaining faith to their children. The basic reason for this failure is that the parents themselves lacked faith. Without faith, their love was an image not a reality, a statement of words not an expression of feelings

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Reality

• I dislike loud-mouthed patriots who suggest they like our country more than I do. Some people's idea of patriotism is hating other countries.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Country

• The curiosity of the neighbors about you, is a tribute to your individuality, and you should encourage it

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Curiosity

• When you lose your sense of humor, get a job running an elevator, because your life will be a series of Ups and Downs anyway.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Life
  • Job
  • Running

• Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

  

  Chris Matthews
  • Believe
  • Men
  • May

• And that wreched creature without hands or feet, who had to be put to bed and fed like a child, that pitiable remnant of a man, whose almost vanished life was nothing more than one scream of pain, cried out in furious indignation: 'What a fool one must be to go and kill oneself!' " - 'Joy of Life

  

  Emile Zola
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• In politics we presume that everyone who knows how to get votes knows how to administer a city or a state. When we are ill... we do not ask for the handsomest physician, or the most eloquent one.

  

  Plato
  • City
  • Politics
  • Physician

• I try my best to learn from other people's mistakes. I have a lot of respect for people who can change.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Change
  • Respect
  • Learn

• I cannot conceive of a personal God who would directly influence the actions of individuals, or would directly sit in judgment on creatures of his own creation.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • God
  • Influence
  • Creation

• The wonder of nature does not become smaller because one cannot measure it by the standards of human moral and human aims.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Nature
  • Moral
  • Human

• It's the process, not the result.

  

  Charles Schlueter
  • Process
  • Results

• No task is so humble that it does not offer an outlet for individuality.

  

  William Feather
  • Humble
  • Doe
  • Individuality

• Science by itself has no moral dimension. But it does seek to establish truth. And upon this truth morality can be built.

  

  William Masters
  • Moral
  • Morality
  • Ethics

• Wherever we direct our view, we discover the melancholy proofs of our depravity; whether we look to ancient or modern times, to barbarous or civilized nations, to the conduct of the world around us, or to the monitor within the breast; whether we read, or hear, or act, or think, or feel, the same humiliating lesson is forced upon us.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Ancient

• Melancholy characterizes those with a superb sense of the sublime.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Melancholy
  • Sublime
  • Characterizes