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  • If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

  • Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life - which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

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  • Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.

  • Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

  • 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.

  • All our knowledge begins with the senses...

    "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).
  • Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

    Mean   Men   Discipline  
    "Diary of an Unknown". Book by Jean Cocteau, 1988.
  • There is nothing higher than reason.

    Immanuel Kant (1896). “Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason”
  • It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

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

    Time   Law   Should  
    Immanuel Kant, James Wesley Ellington (1994). “Ethical Philosophy: The Complete Texts of Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals, and Metaphysical Principles of Virtue, Part II of The Metaphysics of Morals, with On a Supposed Right to Lie Because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.30, Hackett Publishing
  • There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

  • My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

  • After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

    War   Forever   World  
    "Japan, The Ambiguous, and Myself". Nobel Lecture, www.nobelprize.org. December 7, 1994.
  • God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

    Elisabeth Elliot (2015). “Through Gates of Splendor”, p.175, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
  • 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.

    Mean   Voice   Numbers  
  • 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?

    Philosophy   Three   May  
    Immanuel Kant (2013). “Immanuel Kant's Critique Of Pure Reason”, p.359, Read Books Ltd
  • There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

    Oriana Fallaci (2002). “The Rage and the Pride”, Rizzoli International Publications
  • Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

    "General Systems" Vol. 7-8, by he Society for the Advancement of General Systems Theory, (p. 11), 1962.
  • Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

  • 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.

    Mean   Humanity   Way  
  • Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

  • Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The more I think of that, the more deeply true it seems to be. It follows that one must range oneself actively against everything that diminishes man, and involve oneself in all struggles which tend to liberate and enlarge him. This categorical imperative is by no way lessened by the fact that such an involvement is inevitably soiled by error: it is a worse error merely to live for oneself, caught within traditions which are soiled by inhumanity.

    Lying   Struggle   Men  
    Victor Serge (2002). “Memoirs of a Revolutionary”, p.374, University of Iowa Press
  • 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.

    Heart   Men   Animal  
    Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”
  • All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

    "Critique of Pure Reason" by Immanuel Kant, (B 730), (1781; 1787).
  • Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.

    "Answering the Question: What is Enlightenment?" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Lewis White Beck, 1784.
  • A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

    Immanuel Kant (1993). “Grounding for the Metaphysics of Morals: with On a Supposed Right to Lie because of Philanthropic Concerns”, p.25, Hackett Publishing
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