Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never simply as a means, but always at the same time as an end.
Critique of Pure Reason
One formulation of the Categorical Imperative from 'Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals'. Its demanding idealism can be seen as unintentionally comedic in its impracticality for everyday human interaction.
1785
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"The moral law is holy."
Controversial"The citizen must be assumed to be of full age, and therefore capable of judging for himself what is good or bad for him."
Controversial"The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels it to seek, is the achievement of a universal civic society which administers law."
Controversial"Dare to know! (Sapere aude.) 'Have courage to use your own understanding!'—that is the motto of enlightenment."
Humorous"We are not rich by what we possess, but by what we can do without."
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