Inclination (n.) makes all objects commensurable: the same man returns an instructive book to go hunting, leaves a beautiful speech for a meal, turns away a pauper to afford the theater.
Inclination (n.) put in the form of a universal law does not legislate but erases itself.
Inclination (n.) degrade humanity the moment they are raised to the dignity of a supreme principle, whatever style they are dressed in.
Inclination (n.) may counsel us, but no one can ever be required to obey any law but reason's; even the commonest understanding sees this instantly in an example, through a respect no one feels for any inclination.
Inclination (n.) vary, grow with every indulgence, and always leave behind a greater void than the one we meant to fill; so to a rational being they are a burden he wishes to be rid of.
Inclination (n.) is blind and servile, good-natured or not; reason must not play its guardian but attend by itself to its own interest.
Inclination (n.) always have the first word: even with God plainly in view, they would speak first, and only then the moral law.