Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy but how we may make ourselves worth

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

Author: Immanuel Kant

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I had therefore to remove knowledge in order to make room for belief.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

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.'

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

He who would travel happily must travel light.

Others may know pleasure, but pleasure is not happiness. It has no more importance than a shadow following a man.

Money is numbers and numbers never end. If it takes money to be happy, your search for happiness will never end.

Just because you are happy it does not mean that the day is perfect, but that you have looked beyond its imperfections.