Immanuel Kant Quotes about Lying

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But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

But a lie is a lie, and in itself intrinsically evil, whether it be told with good or bad intents.

Immanuel Kant

Lying, Evil

Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

By a lie, a man... annihilates his dignity as a man.

Immanuel Kant

Life, Success, Lying

Enlightenment is man's emergence from his self-imposed nonage. Nonage is the inability to use one's own understanding without another's guidance. This nonage is self-imposed if its cause lies not in lack of understanding but in indecision and lack of courage to use one's own mind without another's guidance. Dare to know!

Immanuel Kant

Courage, Lying, Men

By a lie a man throws away and, as it were, annihilates his dignity as a man. A man who himself does not believe what he tells another ... has even less worth than if he were a mere thing. ... makes himself a mere deceptive appearance of man, not man himself.

Immanuel Kant

Lying, Believe, Men

"Doctrine of Virtue" by Immanuel Kant, translated by Mary J. Gregor, (p. 93), 1964.