Character Quote by 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

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

— Immanuel Kant

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

— Bertrand Russell

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is…

— Arthur Rimbaud

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

— Ezra Taft Benson

Happiness is a moral obligation

— Dennis Prager

We become moral when we are unhappy.

— Marcel Proust

Morality must relate, at some level, to the well-being of conscious creatures. If there are more and less effective ways for us to seek…

— Sam Harris

The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general welfare and happiness; the…

— Annie Besant

Morality is the struggle of the bound will to get free and is the proof that we have come from perfection. . . .

— Swami Vivekananda

Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives…

— Steven Pinker

Morality is only moral when it is voluntary.

— Lincoln Steffens