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Immanuel Kant quotes on morality

5 verified English passages where Immanuel Kant’ s thought meets questions of morality.

Immanuel Kant on morality

Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) approaches morality within German idealism. He argued that experience is structured by a priori forms and categories, and that morality rests on autonomy and the categorical imperative. Systematically, the teaching links epistemology, ethics, aesthetics, law into a practical and theoretical whole. On this page, the archive isolates English passages where that project meets morality most directly—useful for searches such as “immanuel kant quotes on morality.”

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  1. Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe…: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.
    Q0064
    Critique of Practical Reason, Conclusion
  2. Act only according to that maxim whereby you can at the same time will that it should become a universal law.
    Q0065
    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
  3. Act so that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in that of another, always as an end and never merely as a means.
    Q0067
    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
  4. It is impossible to think of anything at all in the world, or indeed even beyond it, that could be considered good without limitation except a good will.
    Q0107
    Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals
  5. Act so that the maxim of your will could always hold at the same time as a principle of universal legislation.