Metaphysics Of Morals Quotes

#1. People who read mainly the Grounding and the Critique often criticize Kant for having his head in the clouds and for not being convincingly capable of dealing with concrete cases. A reading of the Metaphysics of Morals will show anyone how unfounded such criticisms are.

Immanuel Kant

#2. The usual derivation of the word Metaphysics is not to be sustainedthe science is supposed to take its name from its superiority to physics. The truth is, that Aristotle's treatise on Morals is next in succession to his Book of Physics.

Edgar Allan Poe

#3. While the easiest way in metaphysics is to condemn all metaphysics as nonsense, the easiest way in morals is to elevate the common practice of the community into a moral absolute.

Daniel J. Boorstin

#4. I've always loved literature, and the best books I read were always trilogies.

Dawn Angelique

#5. Man is a living duty, a depository of powers that he must not leave in a brute state. Man is a wing.

Jose Marti

#6. If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.

Karen Salmansohn

#7. All things are already complete in oneself.

Confucius

#8. Morals can't function normally because morals have been declared intellectually illegal by the subject object metaphysics that dominates present social thought

Robert M. Pirsig

#9. Have the courage to use your own reason- That is the motto of enlightenment.
"Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals" (1785)

Immanuel Kant

#10. The truth will set you free. Unless you're guilty.

Keith Ablow