Immanuel Kant on goodness
Immanuel Kant96 quotes“It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.”
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From such crooked timber as humanity is made of, no straight thing was ever constructed.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant We can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant I have therefore found it necessary to deny knowledge, in order to make room for faith.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant You must, therefore you can. A free will and a will subject to moral laws are one and the same thing.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant To be is to do.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
Immanuel KantImmanuel Kant
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