Categorical imperative Quote by Immanuel Kant Download Open image “There is nothing higher than reason.” — Immanuel Kant ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Categorical imperative Higher Inspirational Intelligence Knowledge Knowledge and ignorance Love Reason Senses
The Infinite, from which comes the impulse that lead us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason; not the highest… — Felix Adler Copy Share Image
The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
“There is no reason not to be able to reason something greater than us all.” — Sharron Goldman Walker Copy Share Image
We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities. — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason. — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
Everything is reason. If you don't have reason, you have nothing. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
There are two excesses: to exclude reason, to admit nothing but reason. The supreme achievement of reason is to realise that there is a… — Blaise Pascal Copy Share Image
It is certainly true that reason is the most important and the highest rank among all things and, in comparison with other things of… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason. — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
Even if a civil society were to be dissolved by the consent of all its members (e.g., if a people inhabiting an island decided… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Heaven has given human beings three things to balance the odds of life: hope, sleep, and laughter. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Beauty presents an indeterminate concept of Understanding, the sublime an indeterminate concept of Reason. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Freedom is that faculty that enlarges the usefulness of all other faculties. — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts. — Immanuel Kant 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
When I could have used a wife, I could not support one; and when I could support one, I no longer needed any — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Enlightenment is the liberation of man from his self-caused state of minority... Supere aude! Dare to use your own understanding!is thus the motto of… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
The ideal of the supreme being is nothing but a regulative principle of reason which directs us to look upon all connection in the… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
“Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.” — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Deaths, births, and marriages, considering how much they are separately dependent on the freedom of the human will, should seem to be subject to… — Immanuel Kant 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
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 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 categorical imperatives,… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
“Silence, silence.’ All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty” — Aldous Huxley 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 categorical imperative… — Oriana Fallaci 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 persist at… — Aldous Huxley 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 at the… — Oliver Sensen 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 audience were… — W.H. Auden 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 history. The… — Victor Serge 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 called 'categorical… — Emir Kusturica 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 irrelevant. — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
