Quotes About Principle

It is different with the transcendental division of a phenomenon. How far that may extend is not a matter of experience, but a principle of reason, which never allows us to consider the empirical regressus in the decomposition of extended bodies, according to the nature of these phenomena, as at any time absolutely completed.

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

I should never act in such a way that I could not also will that my maxim should be a universal law.

An action done from duty has its moral worth, not in the purpose to be attained by it, but in the maxim according with which it is decided upon; it depends therefore, not on the realization of the object of action, but solely on the principle of volition in accordance with which, irrespective of all objects of the faculty of desire, the action has been performed.

I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by the agreeableness that a thing affords, whether profit be regarded.

R]eason of itself, independent on all experience, ordains what ought to take place, that accordingly actions of which perhaps the world has hitherto never given an example, the feasibility even if which might be very much doubted by one who founds everything on experience, are nevertheless inflexibly commanded by reason; that, for example, even though there might never yet have been a sincere friend, yet not a whit the less is pure sincerity in friendship required of every man...

Act upon a maxim which, at the same time, involves its own universal validity for every rational being.

all duties depend as regards the kind of obligation (not the object of their action) upon the one principle.

Jeg skal alltid handle slik at den regelen jeg handler etter kunne gjelde som allmenn lov.

Rectitude is the power of deciding upon a certain course of conduct in accordance with reason, without wavering—to die when it is right to die, to strike when to strike is right.

Nikada ne možete biti sigurni u nešto sve vreme. Možete imati samo odvažnosti i snage da u?inite ono što mislite da je pravo. Možda ?e se to kasnije pokazati kao neta?no, ali vi ste ga bar u?inili, a to je ono što je važno.

Oh, hell! I can't sleep!" "Neither can I! But I might as well try—as a matter of principle."   Twelve hours later, sleep was still just that—a matter of principle, unattainable in practice.

Nunca permitas que el sentido de la moral te impida hacer lo que está bien!

I think what we need to do here is to make use of Thargola's Sword. You know what that is, Beenay?" "Of course, sir. The principle of parsimony. First put forth by the medieval philosopher Thargola 14, who said, 'We must drive a sword through any hypothesis that is not strictly necessary

Q. You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

You do not consider your statement a disloyal one? A. No, sir. Scientific truth is beyond loyalty and disloyalty.

I despise envy on principle and I feel only contempt for those who fall prey to it; so I never let myself feel it, you see, unless I can call it something else.

Was die Moralisten das Böse nannten, war in Wirklichkeit die Lebensregel.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

para él la igualdad no sólo era posible, sino inevitable, y la practicaba como una religión.

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent. Morgana aroused mixed feelings of fascination

He had a principle: if you lend money and never see the person again, that's money well spent.

I am a conservative, but I am not a zombie.