Logo
Quote by Immanuel Kant
Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits

Suicide is not abominable because God prohibits it; God prohibits it because it is abominable. – Immanuel Kant

Other quotes by Immanuel Kant

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills. – Immanuel Kant

Category:
War
Author
Immanuel Kant
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Suicide
category

Each victim of suicide gives his act a personal stamp which expresses his temperament, the special conditions in which he is involved, and which, consequently, cannot be explained by the social and general causes of the phenomenon. – Emile Durkheim

Category:
Suicide

One said of suicide, As long as one has brains one should not blow them out. And another answered, But when one has ceased to have them, too often one cannot. – Francis H. Bradley

Category:
Suicide

Judging whether life is or is not worth living amounts to answering the fundamental question of philosophy. All the rest–whether or not the world has three dimensions, whether the mind has nine or twelve categories–comes afterward. These are games; one must first answer. – Albert Camus

Category:
Suicide

And one of his partners asked Has he vertigo? and the other glanced out and down and said Oh no, only about ten feet more. – Ogden Nash

Category:
Suicide

Random Quotes

Of course in science there are things that are open to doubt and things need to be discussed. But among the things that science does know, evolution is about as certain as anything we know. – Richard Dawkins

Category:
Science

Ive become sort of an accidental advocate for attachment parenting, which is a style of parenting that… basically, the way mammals parent and the way people have parented for pretty much all of human history except the last 200 years or so. – Mayim Bialik

Category:
parenting

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure. – Sheila Jackson Lee

Category:
Failure

Im trying very hard to understand this generation. They have adjusted the timetable for childbearing so that menopause and teaching a sixteen-year-old how to drive a car will occur in the same week. – Erma Bombeck

Category:
Youth