Rules for happiness: something to do, so... by Immanuel Kant | We Heart Quotes

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

- Immanuel Kant

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Nothing Man

Out of timber so crooked as that from which man is made nothing entirely straight can be carved.

- Immanuel Kant

Metaphysics

Metaphysics is a dark ocean without shores or lighthouse, strewn with many a philosophic wreck.

- Immanuel Kant

Action World

Act that your principle of action might safely be made a law for the whole world.

- Immanuel Kant

Life

Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law.

- Immanuel Kant

End

Always recognize that human individuals are ends, and do not use them as means to your end.

- Immanuel Kant

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