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

All human cognition begins with intuitions, proceeds from thence to conceptions, and ends with ideas.

All so-called moral interest consists simply in respect for the law.

War seems to be ingrained in human nature, and even to be regarded as something noble to which man is inspired by his love of honor, without selfish motives.

Human beings are never to be treated as a means but always as ends.

It is certainly a bad sign of common sense to appeal to it as a witness.

To be is to do.

But only he who, himself enlightened, is not afraid of shadows.

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

Things which as effects presuppose others as causes cannot be reciprocally at the same time causes of these.

Freedom, is a property of all rational beings.

Nature is beautiful because it looks like Art; and Art can only be called beautiful if we are conscious of it as Art while yet it looks like Nature.

The enjoyment of power inevitably corrupts the judgement of reason, and perverts its liberty.

Woman wants control, man self-control.

Two things fill the mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe, the more often and the more intensely the mind of thought is drawn to them: the starry heavens above me and the moral law within me.

The great mass of people are worthy of our respect.

Laughter is an affect resulting from the sudden transformation of a heightened expectation into nothing.

My teacher asked me what I want to be when I grow up, I said happy. She told me I don’t understand the assignment, I told her she doesn’t understand life.

Each of us deserves the freedom to pursue our own version of happiness. No one deserves to be bullied.

Know your own happiness. You want nothing but patience or give it a more fascinating name, call it hope.

I love spending time with my children, it’s what makes me happiest!

My business is making people, especially children, happy.

There’s nothing more satisfying than seeing a happy and smiling child.

As we cultivate peace and happiness in ourselves, we also nourish peace and happiness in those we love.

Now just with memories, I can live happily with you.