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Quote of Immanuel Kant - Among moral qualities, true virtue alone...


Biography - Immanuel Kant:

German philosopher.
Born: 1724 - Died: 1804
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: Germany
Germany

Among moral qualities, true virtue alone is sublime.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
En matière de qualités morales, la vertu seule est sublime.

German
In moralischen Eigenschaften ist wahre Tugend allein erhaben.




See also 

See also...



That is sublime in comparison with which everything else is small.




Quotes for: virtue


Quotes

Quotes about virtue:


The strangest, most generous, and proudest of all virtues is true courage.





All things excellent are as difficult as they are rare.





Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.





Recommend virtue to your children it alone, not money, can make them happy. I speak from experience.





The virtues lose themselves in interest as the rivers are lost in the sea.





Humility is not a virtue; that is, it does not arise from reason.











Quotes for: morality


Quotes

Quotes for: morality


We have need of morality only for want of love.





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.





Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it.





All our dignity consists, then, in thought. By it we must elevate ourselves, and not by space and time which we cannot fill.
Let us endeavour then to think well; this is the principle of morality.






Give and take pleasure, without harming yourself or anyone else — that, I think, sums up morality.





It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.











Quotes

Immanuel Kant also said...


Have courage to use your own reason!





Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and reverence, the more often and more steadily one reflects on them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.





Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.





It is through good education that all the good in the world arises.





Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.





Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another.












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