Happiness Quotes by Immanuel Kant

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy

— Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

— Immanuel Kant

Act in such a way that you will be worthy of being happy.

— Immanuel Kant

Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

— Immanuel Kant

What are the aims which are at the same time duties? They are perfecting of ourselves, the happiness of others.

— Immanuel Kant

“Settle, for sure and universally, what conduct will promote the happiness of a rational being.”

— Immanuel Kant

Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness

— Immanuel Kant

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I…

— Immanuel Kant

“Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through…

— Immanuel Kant

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone…

— Immanuel Kant

“I class the principle of moral feeling under that of happiness, because every empirical interest promises to contribute to our well-being by…

— Immanuel Kant

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

— Immanuel Kant

We find that the more a cultivated reason devotes itself to the aim of enjoying life and happiness, the further does man…

— Immanuel Kant

***Three Conditions of Happiness*** If you have work to do If you have someone you love If You have hope Then You…

— Immanuel Kant

When a thoughtful human being has overcome incentives to vice and is aware of having done his bitter duty, he finds himself…

— Immanuel Kant

No-one can compel me to be happy in accordance with his conception of the welfare of others, for each may seek his…

— Immanuel Kant

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is…

— Immanuel Kant

“if adversity and hopeless grief have quite taken away the taste for life; if an unfortunate man, strong of soul and more…

— Immanuel Kant

“The sight of a being who is not adorned with a single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity,…

— Immanuel Kant

“...We find that the more a cultivated reason applies itself with deliberate purpose to the enjoyment of life and happiness, so much…

— Immanuel Kant

“The principle of private happiness, however, is the most objectionable, not merely because it is false, and experience contradicts the supposition that…

— Immanuel Kant

“...[A]ll the elements which belong to the notion of happiness are altogether empirical, that is, they must be borrowed from experience, and…

— Immanuel Kant