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Quotation from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
“Would he have long life? who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? would he at least have health”
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
Part of Kant's argument that no one can define what would make them happy, so prudence yields only counsels.
Citation: "Would he have long life? who guarantees to him that it would not be a long misery? would he at least have health" — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id groundwork-of-the-metaphysics-of-morals-q7)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
