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" A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. "
Reference
Purpose
Any
" Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world. "
World
Your
Principle
" All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. "
Understanding
Than
Nothing
" 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? "
Three
Know
Questions
" 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. "
Thought
Us
Way
" Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end. "
Always
Human
Your
" But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience. "
Begins
Knowledge
Follow
" By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man. "
Lie
His
Dignity
" Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.' "
Forgetting
Praise
Said
" Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play. "
Blind
Experience
Play
" From such crooked wood as that which man is made of, nothing straight can be fashioned. "
Man
Nothing
Straight
" Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination. "
Reason
Ideal
Imagination
" He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals. "
Men
Pet
Heart
" If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on. "
Man
Complain
He
" I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief. "
Knowledge
Order
Remove
" Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another. "
Use
Without
Intelligence
" Ingratitude is the essence of vileness. "
Ingratitude
Essence
" 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. "
Guilty
Doing
Man
" 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. "
Without
Way
Some
" It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience. "
Experience
Knowledge
Beyond
" It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy. "
Happy
Will
Happiness
" It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably. "
Live
Long
Should
" Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law. "
Life
Live
Become
" May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law. "
Actions
Become
Law
" Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck. "
Many
Dark
Lighthouse
" Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness. "
Worthy
Morality
May
" Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason. "
Divine
Nothing
Agreeable
" Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved. "
Nothing
Out
Straight
" Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands. "
Religion
Our
Divine
" Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. "
Wisdom
Science
Life
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