[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a…

“...I had somehow jointed a completely unexpected and unknown company, presumably of people Rita had carelessly left lying around where they had been easily…

— Jeff Lindsay

My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not will that…

— Immanuel Kant

God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

— Elisabeth Elliot

If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is called 'categorical…

— Emir Kusturica

All our knowledge begins with the senses,

— Immanuel Kant

Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of history. The…

— Victor Serge

“Iago’s treatment of Othello conforms to Bacon’s definition of scientific enquiry as putting Nature to the Question. If a member of the audience were…

— W.H. Auden

“the passage on dignity is an addendum to the formula of autonomy: ‘act only so that the will could regard itself as at the…

— Oliver Sensen

“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to persist at…

— Aldous Huxley

There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative…

— Oriana Fallaci

“Silence, silence.’ All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty”

— Aldous Huxley

“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the categorical imperatives,…

— Stefan Zweig

Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's Groundwork); second,…

— Allen W. Wood

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

— Immanuel Kant