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One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.
Paul Valéry - Tel quel / 



One should be light like a bird, and not like a feather.

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I have laboured carefully, not to mock, lament, or execrate, but to understand human actions.
Baruch Spinoza - Tractatus politicus / 






Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.
Marcus Aurelius - Meditations / 



Often he who omits an act does injustice, not only he who commits an act.




Action is the language of the body and should harmonize with the spirit within.
Marcus Tullius Cicero - De oratore / 






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 / 



Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.




Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.
Henri Bergson / 






Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.
Hannah Arendt / 



Forgiveness is the key to action and freedom.




I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.
John Locke - An Essay Concerning Human Understanding / 



I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.




The consequences of every act are included in the act itself.
George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four / 






The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.
Simone de Beauvoir / 



The present is not a potential past; it is the moment of choice and action.




Among the special duties to others, the first is Truthfulness in speech and action.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel / 






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 / 






Change your life today. Don't gamble on the future, act now, without delay.
Simone de Beauvoir / 






Finding the right words at the right moment is action.
Hannah Arendt / 






My spirit yearns for action, my breath for freedom.
Friedrich Schiller - The Robbers / 






Article V – The law has the right to forbid only actions harmful to society. Anything which is not forbidden by the law cannot be impeded, and no one can be constrained to do what it does not order.
- Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen of 1789 / 






To act freely is to retake possession of oneself; it is to place oneself back in pure duration.
Henri Bergson - Time and Free Will: An Essay on the Immediate Data of Consciousness / 






Act so that the effects of your action are compatible with the permanence of genuine human life.
Hans Jonas - The Imperative of Responsibility / 






It is doubtless a fine harmony when doing and saying go together.
Michel de Montaigne - Essays / 






If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. But do not care to convince him. Men will believe what they see. Let them see.
Henry David Thoreau / 






Knowledge kills action; action requires the veils of illusion
Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche - The Birth of Tragedy / 






How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






To love is to act.
Victor Hugo / 






To act is easy, to think is hard; to act according to our thought is troublesome.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe / 






Action is the foundational key to all success.
Pablo Picasso / 






As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky / 






Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald / 






From science comes foresight, from foresight action.
Auguste Comte - Course of Positive Philosophy / 






Great men undertake great things because they are great; fools, because they think them easy.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 






Action creates more fortunes than prudence.
Luc de Clapiers, marquis de Vauvenargues - Reflexions and Maxims / 










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