Morality is not properly the doctrine [of] how we should make ourselves happy, but how we should make ourselves worthy of happiness.

Immanuel Kant (1724-1804) German philosopher
Critique of Practical Reason [Kritik der praktischen Vernunft], 1.2.2.5 (1788) [tr. Abbott (1873)]

 
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  1. David Newman

    I think you need to insert “make” between “ourselves” and “happy”. At least, that’s how the Guttenberg online version of the Abbott translation goes.

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