Immanuel Kant Quotes

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

To be good, and to do good, is all we have to do.

What is the real relation between happiness and goodness? It is only within a few generations that men have found courage to say that there is none.

The mere abhorrence of vice is not a virtue at all.

Philosophy is fundamentally about how you come to terms with living your life and trying to do it in a wise manner, and, for me, that means decently and compassionately and courageously and so forth.

People are either good or they're not. Religion doesn't make anybody good, I don't think.

For Aristotle, goodness is a kind of prospering in the precarious affair of being human.

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

What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

One has only as much morality as one has philosophy and poetry.

I want people to come away from my book with questions. Questions about virtue and goodness. Not answers.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

All men are born good.

A more beautiful or precious morsel of ethics I have never seen

How can one preach goodness and love to men without at the same time offering them an interpretation of the World that justifies this goodness and this love?

We can be wise from goodness and good from wisdom.

Good has two meanings: it means that which is good absolutely and that which is good for somebody.

Happiness can be built only on virtue, and must of necessity have truth for its foundation.

He that has not religion to govern his morality, is not a dram better than my mastiff-dog; so long as you stroke him, and please him, and do not pinch him, he will play with you as finely as may be, he is a very good moral mastiff; but if you hurt him, he will fly in your face, and tear out your throat.

If you look after truth and goodness, beauty looks after herself.

Goodness is easier to recognize than to define.

Always do what is right. It will gratify half of mankind and astound the other.

Morality is truth in full bloom.

Morality must be the heart of our existence, if it is to be what it wants to be for us. The highest form of philosophy is ethics. Thus all philosophy begins with "I am." The highest statement of cognition must be an expression of that fact which is the means and ground for all cognition, namely, the goal of the I.

It is no easy task to be good.