"One who makes himself a worm cannot..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant

“A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.”

“To a high degree we are, through art and science, cultured. We are civilized - perhaps too much for our own good - in all sorts of social grace and decorum. But to consider ourselves ashaving reached morality - for that, much is lacking.”

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

“I will gladly lecture for fifty dollars, but I'll not be a guest for less than a hundred.”

“To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.”

“It shames the average man to be valued below his own estimate of his worth.”

“A man is ethical only when life, as such, is sacred to him.”

“Non-violence means dialogue, using our language, the human language. Dialogue means compromise; respecting each other’s rights; in the spirit of reconciliation there is a real solution to conflict and disagreement. There is no hundred percent winner, no hundred percent loser—not that way but half-and-half. That is the practical way, the only way.”

“When you serve your mother and father it is okay to try to correct them once in a while. But if you see that they are not going to listen to you, keep your respect for them and don't distance yourself from them. Work without complaining.”