Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
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In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
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.
Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.
Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.
Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief.
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.
By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.
Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
To be is to do.
It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.
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.'
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.
It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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