Quotes About Categorical Imperative

#1. Silence, silence.' All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative. Fifty

Aldous Huxley

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

Immanuel Kant

#3. we really do acknowledge the validity of the categorical imperative and allow ourselves (while keeping a wary eye on it) only a few exceptions -

Anonymous

#4. Morality, after all, has nothing to do with selflessness. On the contrary, self-interest is precisely the basis of the categorical imperative.

Frans De Waal

#5. After the end of the Second World War it was a categorical imperative for us to declare that we renounced war forever in a central article of the new Constitution.

Kenzaburo Oe

#6. 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

#7. My conscience is informed by reason. It's like Kant's categorical imperative: behave to others as you would wish they behaved to you.

Ayaan Hirsi Ali

#8. God's command 'Go ye, and preach the gospel to every creature' was the categorical imperative. The question of personal safety was wholly irrelevant.

Elisabeth Elliot

#9. Interchanges between the senses are frequent and astonishing: One knows the smell of a low B flat, the sound of green, the taste of the categorical imperative (which is something like veal). No

Oliver Sacks

#10. Poetry is an ethic. By ethic I mean a secret code of behavior, a discipline constructed and conducted according to the capabilities of a man who rejects the falsifications of the categorical imperative.

Jean Cocteau

#11. There are moments in Life when keeping silent becomes a fault, and speaking an obligation. A civic duty, a moral challenge, a categorical imperative from which we cannot escape.

Oriana Fallaci

#12. Man is the highest essence of man, hence with the categorical imperative to overthrow all relations in which man is a debased, enslaved, abandoned, despicable essence.

Karl Marx

#13. How high you will rise in your life will be determined not by how hard you work but by how well you think.

Robin S. Sharma

#14. It is perhaps the great discomfort of those trying to silence the world to discover that we have voices sealed inside our heads, voices that with each passing day, grow even louder than the clamor of the world outside.

Edwidge Danticat

#15. The movies are an eruption of trash that has lamed the American mind and retarded Americans from becoming cultured people.

Ben Hecht

#16. So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis - there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.

Stephen Covey

#17. Wow, " Ben said. He thought Eddie's mother must be really weird. He was unconscious of the fact that now both of his hands were fiddling in the remains of his sweatshirt. "Why don't you just say no? Say something like 'Hey Ma, I feel all right, I just want to stay home and watch Sea Hunt.

Stephen King

#18. A good story is one liked. A great story is one that challenges thought, defiant and gets mouths talking.

Veronica Purcell

#19. Slavery is something that is all too often swept under the carpet.

Lupita Nyong'o

#20. 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

#21. Then he dozed off to sleep and to dream dreams that for madness and audacity rivalled those of poppy-eaters

Jack London