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Quotation from Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals by Immanuel Kant
“happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination”
Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889)
Because happiness rests on empirical grounds, no strict command can tell us how to achieve it.
Citation: "happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination" — Immanuel Kant, Groundwork of the Metaphysics of Morals, Second Section, trans. Thomas Kingsmill Abbott (1889). (id groundwork-of-the-metaphysics-of-morals-q8)
Portrait: Immanuel Kant - Gemaelde 2, Becker, Public domain.
