"An action is essentially good if the..." - Quote by Immanuel Kant

“It is by his activities and not by enjoyment that man feels he is alive. In idleness we not only feel that life is fleeting, but we also feel lifeless.”

“Always treat people as ends in themselves, never as means to an end.”

“You only know me as you see me, not as I actually am”

“This demand follows from an insight that I was the first to articulate: that there are no moral facts.”

“Think nothing profitable to you which compels you to break a promise, to lose your self respect, to hate any person, to curse, to act the hypocrite.”

“Breach of promise is no less an act of insolvency than a refusal to pay one's debt.”

“To be natural means to dare to be as immoral as Nature is.”

“I am not in favour of this modern mania for turning bad people into good people at a moment's notice.”

“Even voting for the right is doing nothing for it. It is only expressing to men feebly your desire that it should prevail. A wise man will not leave the right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action of masses of men.”