Ethics Quotes by Immanuel Kant

Do the right thing because it is right.

— Immanuel Kant

Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe...

— Immanuel Kant

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

— Immanuel Kant

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks…

— Immanuel Kant

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

— Immanuel Kant

[R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will…

— Immanuel Kant

“The whole interest of my reason, whether speculative or practical, is concentrated in the three following questions: What can I know? What…

— Immanuel Kant

Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs…

— Immanuel Kant

Laziness and cowardice explain why so many men. . . remain under a life-long tutelage and why it is so easy for…

— Immanuel Kant

[S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate…

— Immanuel Kant

If you punish a child for being naughty, and reward him for being good, he will do right merely for the sake…

— Immanuel Kant

“In the physical constitution of an organized being, that is, a being adapted suitably to the purposes of life, we assume it…

— Immanuel Kant

“Laziness and cowardice are the reasons why so great a portion of mankind, after nature has long since discharged them from external…

— Immanuel Kant

“On the other hand, the moral law, although it gives no such prospect, does provide a fact absolutely inexplicable from any data…

— Immanuel Kant

“By this freedom the will of a rational being, as belonging to the sensuous world, recognizes itself to be, like all other…

— Immanuel Kant