9 Quotes by Immanuel Kant about happiness
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Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
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Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.
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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 God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy
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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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Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings
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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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Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.
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