We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
– Immanuel Kant
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- Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. – Immanuel Kant
- It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will. – Immanuel Kant
- Most people who possess life, in reality, do not quite understand that they possess life only because they possess time. – Sunday Adelaja
- I don’t possess these thoughts I have — they possess me. I don’t possess these feelings I have — They obsess me. – Ashly Lorenzana
- In every department of physical science there is only so much science, properly so-called, as there is mathematics. – Immanuel Kant
- …[P]hysics… [is] the philosophy of nature, so far as it is based on empirical laws. – Immanuel Kant
- …[F]reedom… is a property of all rational beings. – Immanuel Kant
- The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty. – Immanuel Kant
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- Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made. – Immanuel Kant
- From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn. – Immanuel Kant
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- An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty. – Immanuel Kant
- But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. – Immanuel Kant
- But, though all our knowledge begins with experience, it by no means follows that all arises out of experience. – Immanuel Kant
- He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. – Immanuel Kant
- …[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer. – Immanuel Kant
- Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness. – Immanuel Kant
- …I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law. – Immanuel Kant
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- I possess so much, but my love for her absorbs it all. I possess so much, but without her I have nothing. – Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- To possess time is to possess life, don’t trivialize time. – Sunday Adelaja
- If we fear loss enough, in the end the things we possess will come to possess us. – Rachel Naomi Remen
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- If you cannot be open-minded, then you do not possess your ideas, your ideas possess you. – Bryant McGill
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- There is no shadow without the sun.No suffering without divinity.No fear without love.No despair without desire.No hopelessness without faith. – Brownell Landrum
- Unless people are convinced about what you are asking them to do, they are not going to make it happen. – Ravi Kant
- Intelligence, Kant reminds, is not so much a result of genius, rather it is a consequence of a determination to use it. – Michael R LeGault
- You don’t get rich writing science fiction. If you want to get rich, you start a religion. – L Ron Hubbard
- Do you know why the rich get richer? It’s is because they spend time with other rich people. – Stephen Richards
- You could become rich if you were born financially poor, But you can’t stay rich if you are poor minded. – Rafaa Khiari
- It was a rich place: as rich as plumcake. – CS Lewis