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“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”

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German philosopher, an important representative of the Enlightenment movement, and the founder of the Kantian philosophical system. His thoughts have had a profound impact on the fields of philosophy, ethics, political science, and others. more

“In suffocating the voice of conscience, passion carries with itself a restlessness of the body and the senses: it is the restlessness of the "external man." When the internal man has been reduced to silence, then passion, once it has been given freedom of action, so to speak, exhibits itself as an insistent tendency to satisfy the senses and the body.”

Men Has Beens Body Action Passion Speak Given Voice Silence Conscience Senses Tendencies Internals Carrie Exhibits Restlessness Suffocating

Author:Pope John Paul II

“Man is born a predestined idealist, for he is born to act. To act is to affirm the worth of an end, and to persist in affirming the worth of an end is to make an ideal.”

Men Ends Born Ideals Activism Persist Philanthropy Idealism Idealist Affirming Predestined

Book:The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source: The Essential Holmes: Selections from the Letters, Speeches, Judicial Opinions, and Other Writings of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

“For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress -- to the future.”

World Has Beens Culture Progress Duty Ought Guides Maturity Eighteen Lad Mediators

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

“The idea of authority, which they represented, was associated in our minds with a greater insight and a more humane wisdom.”

Mind Ideas Greater Quiet Authority Insight Humane

Book:All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

Source: All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel

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