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 Copy Share Image
A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Silence, silence.’ All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Live and let live” was the famous Viennese motto, which today still seems to me to be more humane than all the… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
If you say morality is just what you like, you lose the metaphysical level of what in the history of philosophy is… — Emir Kusturica Copy Share Image
There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a… — Oriana Fallaci Copy Share Image
“the passage on dignity is an addendum to the formula of autonomy: ‘act only so that the will could regard itself as… — Oliver Sensen Copy Share Image
Kantian ethical theory distinguishes three levels: First, that of a fundamental principle (the categorical imperative, formulated in three main ways in Kant's… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Early on, I learnt from the Russian intelligentsia that the only meaning of life lies in conscious participation in the making of… — Victor Serge Copy Share Image
“If now we attend to ourselves on occasion of any transgression of duty, we shall find that we in fact do not… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Iago’s treatment of Othello conforms to Bacon’s definition of scientific enquiry as putting Nature to the Question. If a member of the… — W.H. Auden Copy Share Image
“To most people any radical change is even more odious than cynicism. The only way between the horns of dilemma is to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities… — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever… — Kenzaburo Oe Copy Share Image
Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative. — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes. — Charles Walter Simpson Copy Share Image
When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause… — Al Alvarez Copy Share Image
“[ Biographical info on Rita ] Born and raised in a Sephardic Jewish family in which culture and love of learning were… — Rita Levi-Montalcini Copy Share Image
“This emphasis on responsibleness is reflected in the categorical imperative of logotherapy, which is: "Live as if you were living already for… — Viktor Emil Frankl Copy Share Image
“before the advent of any particular cultural, religious, or philosophical ethics, ethics has existed. Not as a unified, normative body of maxims,… — Michael D. Jackson Copy Share Image
“Jews refuse to apply Kant's categorical imperative and be limited by universal rules. We might attempt a definition of a Jew as… — Israel Shamir Copy Share Image
I would be ok if I found out for sure that if I am in any way superior to a wolf it… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“It took a couple of months before we were both convinced there were no rules about sexual activities in Hell and our… — Steven L. Peck Copy Share Image
“The church's theology bought into this ahistoricism in different ways: along a more liberal, post-Kantian trajectory, the historical particularities of Christian faith… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
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