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Quotation from Critique of Practical Reason by Immanuel Kant
“Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission”
Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter III, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
The opening of Kant's apostrophe to Duty, which asks where the root of its noble descent may be found.
Citation: "Duty! Thou sublime and mighty name that dost embrace nothing charming or insinuating, but requirest submission" — Immanuel Kant, Critique of Practical Reason, Book I, Chapter III, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id kant-critique-of-practical-reason-q4)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
