Duty
Explore wisdom and insights from Duty
"Sapere aude—Dare to know!"
Immanuel Kant
"I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become a law universal."
Immanuel Kant
"Man himself must make or have made himself into whatever he is to become."
Immanuel Kant
Attributed
"Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens above and the moral law within."
Immanuel Kant
"Freedom consists in independence from the coercion of another's will."
Immanuel Kant
Attributed
"Act only according to that maxim whereby you can will it should become a universal law."
Immanuel Kant
"We can never know things as they are in themselves, only as they appear to us."
Immanuel Kant
"Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made."
Immanuel Kant
Attributed
"Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage."
Immanuel Kant
"Nothing is truly valuable unless it comes from duty."
Immanuel Kant
"You have power over your mind - not outside events."
Marcus Aurelius
"The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it."
Marcus Aurelius
"Life is neither good nor evil, but only a place for good and evil."
Marcus Aurelius
"Waste no more time arguing about what a good man should be. Be one."
Marcus Aurelius
"Confine yourself to the present."
Marcus Aurelius
"If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself."
Marcus Aurelius
"You have only ever had one master; one source from which all things proceed."
Marcus Aurelius
"Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact."
Marcus Aurelius
"The impediment to action advances action."
Marcus Aurelius
"Very little is needed to make a happy life."
Marcus Aurelius