Happiness is not an ideal of reason but... by Immanuel Kant | We Heart Quotes

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Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Other quotes by Immanuel Kant

Men Man

He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.

- Immanuel Kant

Action

A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose.

- Immanuel Kant

Life

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

- Immanuel Kant

War Will

Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'

- Immanuel Kant

Ethics Man

In law a man is guilty when he violates the rights of others. In ethics he is guilty if he only thinks of doing so.

- Immanuel Kant

Nothing

Nothing is divine but what is agreeable to reason.

- Immanuel Kant

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