Universal Law Quotes by Immanuel Kant

12 Universal Law quotes by Immanuel Kant

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Kant’s brief foray into the idea of a universal moral code offers a compact glimpse of his rigorous thinking. Though brief, these twelve lines capture the core of his ethical stance.

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Act so that the maxim of your act could be made the principle of a universal law.

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So act that anything you do may become universal law.

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Let us live our lives as if the maxim of our actions were to become a universal law for the whole world.

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May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.

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Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

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“...I am never to act otherwise than so that I could also will that my maxim should become universal law.”

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“Act only according to that maxim by which you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.”

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.

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Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law without…

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I ought never to act except in such a way that I could also will that my maxim should become a universal…

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“A man reduced to despair by a series of misfortunes feels wearied of life, but is still so far in possession of…

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“[A man], who is in prosperity, while he sees that others have to contend with great wretchedness and that he could help…

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How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

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Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter.

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Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason.

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Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties.

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Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

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

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When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any

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