Immanuel Kant
2 books with highlights
Books
The Critique of Pure Reason
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The Metaphysics of Morals
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Featured Highlights
The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it is good because of its volition.
Axioms are not mere assumptions; they are necessary truths.
Human reason has a tendency to go beyond the limits of experience.
Act only according to that maxim whereby you can, at the same time, will that it should become a universal law.
The critique of pure reason must be a critique of the faculty of reason itself.
The moral worth of an action does not lie in the effect expected from it, nor in any principle of action that is based on the expected effect.
A good will is the only thing that is good without qualification.
The good will is not good because of what it effects or accomplishes, it is good in itself.
The categories are nothing but functions of the understanding.
In order to be able to think, we must be able to judge.