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| Immanuel Kant
Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us. By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. Do what is right, though the world may perish. Everything in nature acts in conformity with law. Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination. If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so. Intuition and concepts constitute . . . the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge that begins with experience. Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. Out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing can ever be made. Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. That all our knowledge begins with experience, there is indeed no doubt....but although our knowledge originates WITH experience, it does not all arise OUT OF experience. The desire of a man for a woman is not directed at her because she is a human being, but because she is a woman. That she is a human being is of no concern to him. The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason. There is an imperative which commands a certain conduct immediately, without having as its condition any other purpose to be attained by it. This imperative is Categorical. ... This imperative may be called that of Morality. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more seriously reflection concentrates upon them: the starry heaven above me and the moral law within me. What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others. |
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