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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.”
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus
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The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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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
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Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.”
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
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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
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Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
Simone de Beauvoir
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Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.”
Henri Bergson
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Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.”
Hannah Arendt
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I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.”
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding
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Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion”
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche
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How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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To love is to act.”
Victor Hugo
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To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.”
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Finding the right words at the right moment is action.”
Hannah Arendt
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Action is the foundational key to all success.”
Pablo Picasso
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All human acts involve more chance than decision.”
André Gide
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An action is the perfection and publication of thought.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson - Nature
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To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.”
Anatole France
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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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It would seem that our actions have lucky or unlucky stars to which they owe a great part of the blame or praise which is given them.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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Although men flatter themselves with their great actions, they are not so often the result of a great design as of chance.”
François de La Rochefoucauld - Reflections, or Sentences and Moral Maxims
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Is a faith without action a sincere faith?”
Jean Racine
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For truly it is to be noted, that children's plays are not sports, and should be deemed as their most serious actions.”
Michel de Montaigne
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