QuoteQuest“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.”
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Source
- Title
- Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant
- Type
- reference · Secondary source
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Context
Doctrine of Virtue as translated by Mary J. Gregor (1964), p. 93
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Kant, Immanuel. (n.d.). Wikiquote: Immanuel Kant. Wikiquote. https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Immanuel_Kant
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