It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
Immanuel Kant
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.
Immanuel Kant
Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.
Immanuel Kant
May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law.
Immanuel Kant
Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
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
Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
Immanuel Kant
Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.
Immanuel Kant
Religion is the recognition of all our duties as divine commands.
Immanuel Kant
Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
Immanuel Kant
Seek not the favor of the multitude; it is seldom got by honest and lawful means. But seek the testimony of few; and number not voices, but weigh them.
Immanuel Kant
So act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.
Immanuel Kant
The only objects of practical reason are therefore those of good and evil. For by the former is meant an object necessarily desired according to a principle of reason; by the latter one necessarily shunned, also according to a principle of reason.
Immanuel Kant
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
Immanuel Kant
To be is to do.
Immanuel Kant
Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.
Immanuel Kant
What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?
Immanuel Kant
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