Treat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
—Immanuel Kant
“If Christ was punished for my sins, I can never be punished for them.”
We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
—Immanuel Kant
My time I divide as follows: the one half I sleep; the other half I dream. I never dream when I sleep; that would be a shame, because to sleep is the height of genius.
—Søren Kierkegaard
The good old Puritans, I believe, never preached better, than when in danger of being taken to prison as soon as they had finished their sermon.
—George Whitefield
Never assume. Be genuine.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
From the crooked timber of humanity, never was a straight thing made.
—Immanuel Kant
“[Christ] is our salvation, and we shall never put that salvation in tangible, graspable, real form unless we go to him, and get distinctly from himself the message we are to deliver on his behalf.”
– Charles Spurgeon
Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of another, always at the same time as an end and never simply as a means.
—Immanuel Kant
Pleasure is never as pleasant as we expected it to be and pain is always more painful. The pain in the world always outweighs the pleasure. If you don’t believe it, compare the respective feelings of two animals, one of which is eating the other.
—Arthur Schopenhauer
I was never the kind of painter or sculptor who kept a shop.
—Michelangelo
A coward dies a thousand deaths, the gallant never taste of death but once.
—Julius Caesar
A sword never kills anybody; it is a tool in the killer’s hand.
—Seneca
You’ll never recognize God if you believe everything people tell you about God.
—Leo Tolstoy
Experience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
—Immanuel Kant
The Constitution is the guide which I never will abandon.
—George Washington
Never confuse movement with action.
—Ernest Hemingway
An argument never persuades anyone; it divides and embitters people.
—Leo Tolstoy
Never put off till tomorrow what may be done day after tomorrow just as well.
—Mark Twain
Anything, anything would be better than this agony of mind, this creeping pain that gnaws and fumbles and caresses one and never hurts quite enough.
—Jean-Paul Sartre
How absurd men are! They never use the liberties they have, they demand those they do not have. They have freedom of thought, they demand freedom of speech.
—Søren Kierkegaard
Never put off to tomorrow what you can do to-day.
—Thomas Jefferson
We never repent of having eat too little.
—Thomas Jefferson
The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.
—Thomas Jefferson
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time, who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done, if we are always doing.
—Thomas Jefferson
I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led.
—Thomas Jefferson
I never considered a difference of opinion in politics, in religion, in philosophy, as cause for withdrawing from a friend.
—Thomas Jefferson
If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.
—Thomas Jefferson
If you want something you’ve never had, you must be willing to do something you’ve never done.
—Thomas Jefferson
How much pain have cost us the evils which have never happened.
—Thomas Jefferson