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Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: The Moral Law: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (2012 edition), Routledge - ISBN: 9781136750687

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Immanuel Kant

“Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals (1785)

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Immanuel Kant

“All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781;1787)

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Immanuel Kant

“All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope?”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

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Immanuel Kant

“All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Critique of Pure Reason (1781; 1787)

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Immanuel Kant

“Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.”

- Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

“But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1896 edition)

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Immanuel Kant

“By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.”

- Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

“Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.”

- Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

“From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Essays and Treatises on Moral, Political, and Various Philosophical Subjects, Vol. I (1798), p. 421

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Immanuel Kant

“He 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 Kant

Source/Notes: Alternative translation in: Lectures on Ethics, Immanuel Kant, Cambridge University Press, 1997, p. 212, "Of Duties to animals and Spirits" - ISBN: 9780521788045

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Immanuel Kant

“I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: Immanuel Kant's Critique of Pure Reason (1896 edition)

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Immanuel Kant

“If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.”

- Immanuel Kant

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Immanuel Kant

“Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.”

- Immanuel Kant

Source/Notes: What is Enlightenment? (1784)

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