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Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#divine #nothing #reason

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#crooked #entirely #made #man #nothing

Dawn cackles as she guides me through the all-glass porch. Thinner, paler Reina shuffles about behind Dawn, watching as I slip my boots off. Although she tries to hide her hands, her fingers flicker nervously. I place my boots neatly on the floor of the porch beside the other pairs in the shadows under the coats. Music drifts through to us from a distant room – it’s the Beach Boys’ California Dreamin’. Dawn looks at me and I smile – they’ve put the record on for me. Dawn nods along happily. ‘Hear you’re a surfer boy!’ she says and she mimics riding a wave. ↗

— Amaya Ellman

#dark #dysfunctional-family #fear-and-suspense #fiction #psychological

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#divine #duties #our #recognition #religion

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#also #desired #evil #former #good

All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#certain #characters #directly #given #indirectly

So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. ↗

— Immanuel Kant

#action #law #made #might #principle

A vision is not just a picture of what could be; it is an appeal to our better selves, a call to become something more. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#become #better #call #could #just

Power is the ability to get things done. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#done #get #power #things

I've found that small wins, small projects, small differences often make huge differences. ↗

— Rosabeth Moss Kanter

#found #huge #i #make #often