Immanuel Kant Quotes, Mean Quotes, Men Quotes

Always regard every man as an end in himself, and never use him merely as a means to your ends [i.e., respect that each person has a life and purpose that is their own; do not treat people as objects to be exploited].

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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

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Human reason is by nature architectonic.

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Manners or etiquette ('accessibility, affability, politeness, refinement, propriety, courtesy, and ingratiating and captivating behavior') call for no large measure of moral determination and cannot, therefore, be reckoned as virtues. Even though manners are no virtues, they are a means of developing virtue.... The more we refine the crude elements in our nature, the more we improve our humanity and the more capable it grows of feeling the driving force of virtuous principles.

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Standing armies shall in time be totally abolished.

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Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable.

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The function of the true state is to impose the minimum restrictions and safeguard the maximum liberties of the people, and it never regards the person as a thing.

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Prudence reproaches; conscience accuses.

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We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man get away from true contentment.

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I freely admit that the remembrance of David Hume was the very thing that many years ago first interrupted my dogmatic slumber and gave a completely different direction to my researches in the field of speculative philosophy.

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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.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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THERE ARE TWO THINGS that don't have to mean anything, one is music and the other is laughter.

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All natural capacities of a creature are destined to evolve completely to their natural end.

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We assume a common sense as the necessary condition of the universal communicability of our knowledge, which is presupposed in every logic and every principle of knowledge that is not one of skepticism.

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Reason must approach nature in order to be taught by it. It must not, however, do so in the character of a pupil who listens to everything that the teacher chooses to say, but of an appointed judge who compels the witness to answer questions which he has himself formulated.

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We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.

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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

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Reason can never prove the existence of God.

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We are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.

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