Quote #60
Morality is not really the doctrine of how to make ourselves happy but of how we are to be worthy of happiness.
More from Immanuel Kant
- Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.
- Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.
- Man must be disciplined, for he is by nature raw and wild.
- Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
- 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.
- Reason can never prove the existence of God.
- It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
- Reason does not work instinctively, but requires trial, practice, and instruction in order to gradually progress from one level of insight …