Immanuel Kant Quotes About Dignity

Quotes about: Dignity

• Often war is waged only in order to show valor; thus an inner dignity is ascribed to war itself, and even some philosophers have praised it as an ennoblement of humanity, forgetting the pronouncement of the Greek who said, 'War is an evil in as much as it produces more wicked men than it takes away.'

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Men, Order

  Immanuel Kant (2007). “Perpetual Peace”, p.36, Filiquarian Publishing, LLC.

• By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Success, Lying

• Every man is to be respected as an absolute end in himself; and it is a crime against the dignity that belongs to him as a human being, to use him as a mere means for some external purpose.

  Immanuel Kant

  Respect, Mean, Men

• A lie is the abandonment and, as it were, the annihilation of the dignity by man.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Men, Dignity

  Immanuel Kant (1836). “The Metaphysic of Ethics”, p.267

• One is not rich by what one owns, but more by what one is able to do without with dignity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Able, Dignity, Rich

• Ours is an age of criticism, to which everything must be subjected. The sacredness of religion, and the authority of legislation, are by many regarded as grounds for exemption from the examination by this tribunal, But, if they are exempted, and cannot lay claim to sincere respect, which reason accords only to that which has stood the test of a free and public examination.

  Immanuel Kant

  Criticism, Age, Examination

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Pure Reason”, p.12, eKitap Projesi

• By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Believe, Men

  "Doctrine of Virtue" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Mary J. Gregor, (p. 93), 1964.

• The inscrutable wisdom through which we exist is not less worthy of veneration in respect to what it denies us than in respect to what it has granted.

  Immanuel Kant

  Wisdom, Respect, Dignity

  Immanuel Kant, Lewis White Beck (1976). “Critique of practical reason, and other writings in moral philosophy”, Taylor & Francis

• In the kingdom of ends everything has either a price or a dignity. Whatever has a price can be replaced by something else as its equivalent; on the other hand, whatever is above all price, and therefore admits of no equivalent, has a dignity. But that which constitutes the condition under which alone something can be an end in itself does not have mere relative worth, i.e., price, but an intrinsic worth, i.e., a dignity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Hands, Doe, Kingdoms

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