Morality is not the doctrine of how we m... by Immanuel Kant | We Heart Quotes

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

- Immanuel Kant

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Law

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

- Immanuel Kant

End

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

- Immanuel Kant

Man

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

- Immanuel Kant

Nothing Man

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

- Immanuel Kant

Experience

But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience.

- Immanuel Kant

Hope May

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?

- Immanuel Kant

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