A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. |
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. |
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? |
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. |
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. |
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. |
By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man |
Do what is right, though the world may perish |
Do what is right, though the world may perish |
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' |
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. |
Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form |
Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination |
Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time; ere long she shall appear to vindicate thee. |
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. |