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Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Rules for Happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

Immanuel Kant
Inspirational, Motivational, Happiness

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

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Way, Worthy

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

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Happy, Sound Doctrine
"Critique of Practical Reason". Book by Immanuel Kant, 1788.

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

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Happy, God

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

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Happy, Laughter
'Fundamental Principles of the Metaphysics of Ethics' (1785, translation by T. K. Abbott) sect. 2

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

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Goal, Rational

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
Happiness, Honesty, Integrity
Immanuel Kant (1963). “Lectures on ethics”

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.

Immanuel Kant
Happiness, Thoughtful, Mind

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