Quotes By Immanuel Kant

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

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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.

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.

Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.

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