Critique of Practical Reason Quotes

“Hence also morality is not properly the doctrine how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should become worthy of happiness.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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“The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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“Two things fill the mind with ever new and increasing admiration and awe, the oftener and the more steadily we reflect on them: the starry heavens above and the moral law within.”

― Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason

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