Immanuel Kant on law
Immanuel Kant96 quotes“All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.”
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An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Man desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant From the crooked timber of humanity, a straight board cannot be hewn.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Never wish to see a just cause defended with unjust means.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant A great part, perhaps the greatest part, of the business of our reason consists in the analysation of the conceptions which we already possess of objects.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant By a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant The hand is the visible part of the brain.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Give me matter, and I will construct a world out of it!
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Enlightenment is man’s emergence from his self-imposed immaturity. Immaturity is the inability to use one’s understanding without guidance from another.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant The history of nature, begins with good, for it is God’s work; the history of freedom begins with badness, for it is man’s work.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
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The first law of history is to dread uttering a falsehood; the next is not to fear stating the truth; lastly, the historian’s writings should be open to no suspicion of partiality or animosity.
Pope Leo XIIIPope Leo XIII I think the lawyers are such incredible actors. Can you imagine the performance they have to do every day?
Monica BellucciMonica Bellucci It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke The essence of tyranny is the enforcement of stupid laws.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke I’d probably have been wealthier if I had stayed with law, but pretty miserable doing it.
Cillian MurphyCillian Murphy There is but one law for all, namely that law which governs all law, the law of our Creator, the law of humanity, justice, equity – the law of nature and of nations.
Edmund BurkeEdmund Burke What we call conscience in many instances, is only a wholesome fear of the law.
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