Immanuel Kant Quotes, Selfishness Quotes, Would Be Quotes

If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Selfishness Quotes , Would Be Quotes

I learned to honor human beings, and I would find myself far more useless than the common laborer if I did not believe that this consideration could impart to all others a value establishing the rights of humanity.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Believe Quotes , Rights Quotes

To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of vanity or self-interest, they find a pleasure in spreading joy around them, and can take delight in the satisfaction of others so far as it is their own work. But I maintain that in such a case an action of this kind, however proper, however amiable it may be, has nevertheless no true moral worth, but is on a level with other inclinations. . . . For the maxim lacks the moral import, namely, that such actions be done from duty, not from inclination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Work Quotes , Vanity Quotes

If we could see ourselves... as we really are, we should see ourselves in a world of spiritual natures, our community which neither began at birth nor will end with the death of the body.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Community Quotes

A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Lying Quotes , Men Quotes

The business of philosophy is not to give rules, but to analyze the private judgments of common reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Business Quotes , Philosophy Quotes

Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Men Quotes

The arts of speech are rhetoric and poetry. Rhetoric is the art of transacting a serious business of the understanding as if it were a free play of the imagination; poetry that of conducting a free play of the imagination as if it were a serious business of the understanding.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Art Quotes , Play Quotes

The infinitude of creation is great enough to make a world, or a Milky Way of worlds, look in comparison with it what a flower or an insect does in comparison with the Earth.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Flower Quotes , Science Quotes

In all judgements by which we describe anything as beautiful, we allow no one to be of another opinion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Beautiful Quotes , Judgement Quotes

Human freedom is realised in the adoption of humanity as an end in itself, for the one thing that no-one can be compelled to do by another is to adopt a particular end. - 'Metaphysical Principles of Virtue

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Adoption Quotes , Humanity Quotes

Parents usually educate their children merely in such a manner than however bad the world may be, they may adapt themselves to its present conditions. But they ought to give them an education so much better than this, that a better condition of things may thereby be brought about by the future.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Children Quotes , Giving Quotes

A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophical Quotes , Race Quotes

That Logic has advanced in this sure course, even from the earliest times, is apparent from the fact that, since Aristotle, it has been unable to advance a step, and thus to all appearance has reached its completion.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Philosophy Quotes , Math Quotes

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Acceptance Quotes , Growth Quotes

Reason in a creature is a faculty of widening the rules and purposes of the use of all its powers far beyond natural instinct; it acknowledges no limits to its projects. Reason itself does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order gradually to progress from one level of insight to another.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Order Quotes , Practice Quotes

I feel a complete thirst for knowledge and an eager unrest to go further in it as well as satisfaction at every acquisition. There was a time when I believed that this alone could constitute the honor of mankind, and I had contempt for the ignorant rabble who know nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Ignorant Quotes , Honor Quotes

The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Evil Quotes , Principles Quotes

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake of the reward; and when he goes out into the world and finds that goodness is not always rewarded, nor wickedness always punished, he will grow into a man who only thinks about how he may get on in the world, and does right or wrong according as he finds advantage to himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Immanuel Kant Quotes , Children Quotes , Men Quotes