Man requires a master, therefore, to curb his will, and to compel him into submission to a universal will which may secure the possibility of universal freedom.
“Pure practical reason does not require that we should renounce all claim to happiness, but only that the moment duty is in question we should take no account of happiness”
"Man requires a master, therefore, to curb his will, and to compel him into submission to a universal will which may secure the possibility of universal freedom.“
Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.
If the truth shall kill them, let them die.
“Out of wood so crooked and perverse as that which man is made of, nothing absolutely straight can ever be wrought.”
"Kant argued that it was not the consequences of actions that make them right or wrong but the motives of the person who carries out the action."
“The majesty of duty has nothing to do with enjoyment of life; it has its special law and its special tribunal”