An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTAn action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
IMMANUEL KANTWe can never, even by the strictest examination, get completely behind the secret springs of action.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are enriched not by what we possess, but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTTreat people as an end, and never as a means to an end.
IMMANUEL KANTAll human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.
IMMANUEL KANTNothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.
IMMANUEL KANTAll so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.
IMMANUEL KANTExperience may teach us what is, but never that it cannot be otherwise.
IMMANUEL KANTBy a lie a man throws away, and as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man.
IMMANUEL KANTWe are not rich by what we possess but by what we can do without.
IMMANUEL KANTLook closely. The beautiful may be small.
IMMANUEL KANTDare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!
IMMANUEL KANTMorality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
IMMANUEL KANTHe 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.
IMMANUEL KANTThe enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.
IMMANUEL KANTMan desires concord; but nature know better what is good for his species; she desires discord.
IMMANUEL KANT