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Moral Quotes by Immanuel Kant
- [R]eason is... given to us as a practical faculty, that is, as one that influences the will....
- [S]uppose the mind of [a] friend of humanity were clouded over with his own grief, extinguishing all sympathetic participation in the fate of others; he…
- The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable…
- . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that…
- To be beneficent when we can is a duty; and besides this, there are many minds so sympathetically constituted that, without any other motive of…
- He who has made great moral progress ceases to pray
- Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
- Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens…
- Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the more often and steadily we reflect upon them: the starry heavens…
- Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment. "Foundations of the Metaphysics of Morals" (1785)
- An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.
- Without man and his potential for moral progress, the whole of reality would be a mere wilderness, a thing in vain, and have no final…
- Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe - the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
More Moral Quotes
- Moral excellence comes about as a result of habit. We become just by doing just acts, temperate by doing temperate acts, brave… — Aristotle
- What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition to virtue… — Aristotle
- The moral virtues, then, are produced in us neither by nature nor against nature. Nature, indeed, prepares in us the ground for… — Aristotle
- Never let your sense of morals get in the way of doing what's right. — Isaac Asimov
- Ethics are not necessarily to do with being law-abiding. I am very interested in the moral path, doing the right thing. — Kate Atkinson
- It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
- Morals are built on religious faith. Virtue is built on morality and influences a culture. — Michele Bachmann
- It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral. — Francis Bacon
- Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity. — Lord Acton
- Trust should be the basis for all our moral training. — Robert Baden-Powell
- A group of politicians deciding to dump a President because his morals are bad is like the Mafia getting together to bump… — Russell Baker
- When law becomes despotic, morals are relaxed, and vice versa. — Honore de Balzac