Immanuel Kant Quotes About Lying

Quotes about: Lying

• How then is perfection to be sought? Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.

  Immanuel Kant

  Lying, Perfection

  Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

• 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”

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

  Immanuel Kant

  Life, Success, Lying

• 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

• Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

  Immanuel Kant

  Courage, Lying, Men

• 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.

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