Quotes about Duty

“ Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence! “

-Immanuel Kant-

Dare to know! Have the courage to use your own intelligence!

It is beyond a doubt that all our knowledge begins with experience.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

All human knowledge thus begins with intuitions, proceeds thence to concepts, and ends with ideas.

The death of dogma is the birth of morality.

The busier we are, the more acutely we feel that we live, the more conscious we are of life.

Morality is not properly the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Duty is the essence of manhood.

Do not trust the horse, Trojans. Whatever it is, I fear the Greeks, even bearing gifts.