Immanuel Kant Quotes About Categorical Imperative
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If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.
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Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses...
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There is nothing higher than reason.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
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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.
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All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?
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Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
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Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
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Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.
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Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.
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All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
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Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
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A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
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