Quote by Immanuel Kant
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest an

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them. – Immanuel Kant

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But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. – Immanuel Kant

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Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

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Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. – Immanuel Kant

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What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal. – Erich Fromm

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I would jump down Etna for any public good — but I hate a mawkish popularity. – John Keats

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Popularity is exhausting. The life of the party almost always winds up in a corner with an overcoat over him. – Wilson Mizner

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Great individuals are not only popular themselves, but they give popularity to whatever they touch. – Fournier

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I declare after all there is no enjoyment like reading! How much sooner one tires of anything than of a book! When I have a house of my own, I shall be miserable if I have not an excellent library. – Jane Austen

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That science has long been neglected and declining in England, is not an opinion originating with me, but is shared by many, and has been expressed by higher authority than mine. – Charles Babbage

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Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that theyd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

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The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave. Otherwise he will move in a world of the dead. He can only gain that conception through personal experience, and he can only use his personal experiences when he is a genius. – E. M. Forster

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