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