Immanuel Kant Categorical Imperative Quotes & Sayings

We need to own problems - but we can't own them all! — John G. Miller

She has been more famous, over a longer time span, than any other female singer. — Ella Fitzgerald

Immanuel Kant's "categorical imperative" says that individual actions are to be judged according to whether we would be pleased if everyone in society took the same action. — Tom Butler-Bowdon

I have thought about that very often - how the times change, and the same words that carry a good many people into the howling wilderness in one generation are irksome or meaningless in the next. — Marilynne Robinson

Inexperienced in the course of world affairs and incapable of being prepared for all the chances that happen in it, I ask myself only 'Can you also will that your maxim should become a universal law?' Where you cannot it is to be rejected... — Immanuel Kant

Some people eat, some people drink, some people smoke. I Pledge. — Johnny Weir

It is only the story ... that saves our progeny from blundering like blind beggars into the spikes of the cactus fence.The story is our escort;without it,we are blind.Does the blind man own his escort?No,neither do we the story;rather,it is the story that owns us.
— Chinua Achebe

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose. — Immanuel Kant