9 Quotes by Immanuel Kant about happiness



  • Author Immanuel Kant
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    The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition even of being worthy of happiness.

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    Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

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    It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably.

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  • Author Immanuel Kant
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    When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself in a state that could be called happiness, a state of contentment and peace of mind in which virtue is its own reward.

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