“An action, to have moral worth, must be done from duty.”
More from Immanuel Kant on Philosophy
“...[T]o be unfaithful to my maxim of prudence may often be very advantageous to me, although to abide by it is certainly safer.”
“Only the descent into the hell of self-knowledge can pave the way to godliness.”
“Simply to acquiesce in skepticism can never suffice to overcome the restlessness of reason.”
“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
“The main point of enlightenment is man's release from his self-caused immaturity, primarily in matters of religion.”
“It is impossible to conceive anything at all in the world, or even out of it, which can be taken as good without qualification, except a good will.”
“Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.”
“Dignity is a value that creates irreplaceability.”
“The death of dogma is the birth of reality.”
“What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?”
Others on Philosophy
Ludwig Wittgenstein
22 quotes“I don't know why we are here, but I'm pretty sure that it is not in order to enjoy ourselves.”
Christopher Hitchens
22 quotes“To the dumb question "Why me?" the cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: why not?”
Nietzsche
22 quotes“Glance into the world just as though time were gone: and everything crooked will become straight to you.”
Carl Jung
21 quotes“I simply believe that some part of the human Self or Soul is not subject to the laws of space and time.”
Heraclitus
19 quotes“Nothing endures but change.”
H. L. Mencken
17 quotes“A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds...”
C.S. Lewis
15 quotes“For the Present is the point at which time touches eternity.”
Napoleon
14 quotes“Circumstances-what are circumstances? I make circumstances.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky
14 quotes“I am alone, I thought, and they are everybody.”
Samuel Beckett
14 quotes“We always find something, eh Didi, to let us think we exist?”
Paul Valéry
13 quotes“The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.”
Charlotte Brontë
13 quotes“Beauty is given to dolls, majesty to haughty vixens, but mind, feeling, passion and the crowning grace of fortitude are...”