Immanuel Kant Quotes About Evil

Quotes about: Evil

• But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Evil

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

• 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.

• 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.'

  Immanuel Kant

  Peace, War, Evil

  Carl Joachim Friedrich, Immanuel Kant (1969). “Inevitable peace”, Greenwood Pub Group

• Procrastination is hardly more evil than grasping impatience.

  Immanuel Kant

  Procrastination, Evil, Impatience

• The bad thing of war is, that it makes more evil people than it can take away.

  Immanuel Kant

  War, Evil People, Tyranny

• The evil effect of science upon men is principally this, that by far the greatest number of those who wish to display a knowledge of it accomplish no improvement at all of the understanding, but only a perversity of it, not to mention that it serves most of them as a tool of vanity.

  Immanuel Kant

  Men, Numbers, Vanity

  Immanuel Kant (1904). “The Educational Theory of Immanuel Kant”

• The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.

  Immanuel Kant

  Evil, Principles, Reason

  Immanuel Kant (2015). “The Critique of Practical Reason: Theory of Moral Reasoning: From the Author of Critique of Pure Reason, Critique of Judgment, Dreams of a Spirit-Seer, Perpetual Peace & Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.51, e-artnow

• . . . as to moral feeling, this supposed special sense, the appeal to it is indeed superficial when those who cannot think believe that feeling will help them out, even in what concerns general laws: and besides, feelings which naturally differ infinitely in degree cannot furnish a uniform standard of good and evil, nor has any one a right to form judgments for others by his own feelings. . . .

  Immanuel Kant

  Believe, Thinking, Law

  Immanuel Kant (2009). “Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Morals”, p.60, Cosimo, Inc.

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