Immanuel Kant Quotes

Living requires but little life; doing requires much.

Living is not breathing but doing.

None so little enjoy themselves, and are such burdens to themselves, as those who have nothing to do. Only the active have the true relish of life.

To have nothing to do, to sit there waiting for little aches and pains, is fundamentally wrong. Life has to be lived.

I begin to think, that a calm is not desirable in any situation in life. Man was made for action and for bustle too, I believe.

I see what keeps people young: work!

I think there's nothing that makes you happier than to be really involved in something. I can't imagine a totally idle life.

I believe that life is about doing.

To live is not breathing it is action.

There is no purpose in living where there is nothing to do.

You weren’t created to simply exist, to endure, or to go through the motions; you were created to be really alive.

No, working is what will keep you alive.

A person has to be busy to be alive.

I just can't imagine not having something to do.

You cannot live without doing something.

The purpose of life is to bring forth goodness. Now, in this life.

If you are idle, be not solitary; if you are solitary be not idle.

The mystery of human existence lies not in just staying alive, but in finding something to live for.

Activism pays the rent on being alive and being here on the planet.

The chiefest action for a man of great spirit is never to be out of action... the soul was never put into the body to stand still.

Work is the law of life, and to reject it as boredom is to submit to it as torment.

What's the point of being alive," she said, "if you're not going to communicate?

Motion is the sign of life.

Vigorous organisms talk not about their processes, but about their aims.

It doesn't matter who we are, how rich we are, how poor we are, famous or not famous, we all have a short window of time here on the planet and what are we going to do with it?