Browsing Topic Best Categorical Imperative Quotes

God’s command ‘Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature’ was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.

My conscience is informed by reason. It’s like Kant’s categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

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, a set of duties, not deduced from but derived from this principle, by way of its interpretation or specification, its application to the general conditions of human life – which Kant does in the Doctrine of virtue, the second main part of the Metaphysics of Morals; and then finally an act of judgment, through which these duties are applied to particular cases.

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

There is nothing higher than reason.

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 our knowledge begins with the senses…

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

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.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

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

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