Immanuel Kant Quotes About Morality

Quotes about: Morality

• The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

  Immanuel Kant

  Acceptance, Growth, Atheism

  "Faith Or Fact" by Henry Moorehouse Taber, (p. 86), 1897.

• Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Happiness, Happy, Sound Doctrine

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

• Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me... Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Two, Awe And Wonder, Law

  "Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

• If we knew that god exists, such knowledge would make morality impossible. For, if we acted morally from fear or fright, or confident of a reward, then this would not be moral. It would be enlightened selfishness.

  Immanuel Kant

  Selfishness, Would Be, Rewards

• cruelty to animals is contrary to man's duty to himself, because it deadens in him the feeling of sympathy for their sufferings, and thus a natural tendency that is very useful to morality in relation to other human beings is weakened.

  Immanuel Kant

  Philosophical, Animal, Men

• To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves as
  having reached morality - for that, much is lacking.

  Immanuel Kant

  Art, Grace, Degrees

  Immanuel Kant (1986). “Philosophical Writings”, Continuum

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