Categorical Imperative Quotes

Categorical Imperative Quote of the day

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.

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

There is nothing higher than reason.

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.

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

All our knowledge begins with the senses...

There is only one categorical imperative in golf, and that is to hit the ball. There are no minor absolutes.

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

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