Character Quote by Marcel Proust

We become moral when we are unhappy.

— Marcel Proust

“As soon as one is unhappy one becomes moral.”

— Marcel Proust

What is moral is what you feel good after.

— Ernest Hemingway

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

— Immanuel Kant

To be moral is to discover fundamentally ones own being.

— Simone de Beauvoir

The temptation to moralize is strong; it is emotionally satisfying to have enemies rather than problems, to seek out culprits rather than the flaws…

— William Sloane Coffin

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

— Ezra Taft Benson

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

— Immanuel Kant

I know only that what is moral is what you feel good after and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway

What is moral is what you feel good after, and what is immoral is what you feel bad after.

— Ernest Hemingway

Morality, like other inputs into the social process, follows the law of diminishing returns- meaning ultimately, negative returns. People can be too moral.

— Thomas Sowell

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

— Immanuel Kant