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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza
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Tractatus politicus
action
Human nature
to understand
The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.”
Simone de Beauvoir
action
decision
present
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.”
Immanuel Kant
-
Groundwork of the Metaphysic of Morals
action
law
Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
action
duty
others
Action, with all its uncertainties, is like an ever-present reminder that men, though they must die, are not born in order to die, but to begin something new.”
Hannah Arendt
action
Man
to die
Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir
action
change
future
life
now
My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.”
Friedrich Schiller
action
freedom
mind
Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.”
-
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789
action
Human rights
law
society
To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.”
Henri Bergson
-
Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness
action
freedom
oneself
Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Henri Bergson
action
Man
to think
Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt
action
forgiveness
freedom
I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke
-
An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
action
thought
It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.”
Michel de Montaigne
-
Essays
action
harmony
Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
action
illusion
knowledge
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
action
oneself
To love is to act.”
Victor Hugo
action
love
To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
action
to think
Finding the right words at the right moment is action.”
Hannah Arendt
action
word
Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
action
success
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.”
Noam Chomsky
action
decision
will
From science comes foresight, from foresight action.”
Auguste Comte
-
Course of Positive Philosophy
action
science
Action creates more fortunes than prudence.”
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues
-
Reflexions and Maxims
action
Prudence
There is only one proof of ability: doing it.”
Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach
action
Whenever the true objects of action appear, they are to be heartily sought. Enthusiasm is the height of man; it is the passing from the human to the divine.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
action
enthusiasm
All human acts involve more chance than decision.”
André Gide
action
decision
randomness
An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson
-
Nature
action
perfection
thought
To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France
action
dream
That principle is, that the sole end for which mankind are warranted, individually or collectively, in interfering with the liberty of action of any of their number, is self-protection. That the only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others.”
John Stuart Mill
action
freedom
others
strength
In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.”
Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama
action
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.”
John Stuart Mill
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happiness
pleasure
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