Quotes by Philosophers - Page 339

Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
Jeremy Bentham
Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's.
Bertrand Russell
Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.
Epicurus
Why should we build our happiness on the opinons of others, when we can find it in our own hearts?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
I don't know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.
Bertrand Russell
Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.
Albert Camus
There was a thing called Heaven; but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol."..."There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality."..."But they used to take morphia and cocaine."..."Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. 178."..."Six years later it was being produced commercially. The perfect drug."..."Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant."..."All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol; none of their defects."..."Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology."..."Stability was practically assured.
Aldous Huxley
Sometimes we must undergo hardships, breakups, and narcissistic wounds, which shatter the flattering image that we had of ourselves, in order to discover two truths: that we are not who we thought we were; and that the loss of a cherished pleasure is not necessarily the loss of true happiness and well-being. (109)
Jean-Yves Leloup
The foundation of irreligious criticism is: Man makes religion, religion does not make man. Religion is, indeed, the self-consciousness and self-esteem of man who has either not yet won through to himself, or has already lost himself again. But man is no abstract being squatting outside the world. Man is the world of man – state, society. This state and this society produce religion, which is an inverted consciousness of the world, because they are an inverted world...Religious suffering is, at one and the same time, the expression of real suffering and a protest against real suffering. Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world, and the soul of soulless conditions. It is the opium of the people.The abolition of religion as the illusory happiness of the people is the demand for their real happiness. To call on them to give up their illusions about their condition is to call on them to give up a condition that requires illusions. The criticism of religion is, therefore, in embryo, the criticism of that vale of tears of which religion is the halo.Criticism has plucked the imaginary flowers on the chain not in order that man shall continue to bear that chain without fantasy or consolation, but so that he shall throw off the chain and pluck the living flower. The criticism of religion disillusions man, so that he will think, act, and fashion his reality like a man who has discarded his illusions and regained his senses, so that he will move around himself as his own true Sun. Religion is only the illusory Sun which revolves around man as long as he does not revolve around himself.
Karl Marx
Listen to what is being preached today. Look at everyone around us. You've wondered why they suffer, why they seek happiness and never find it. If any man stopped and asked himself whether he's ever held a truly personal desire, he'd find the answer. He'd see that all his wishes, his efforts, his dreams, his ambitions are motivated by other men. He's not really struggling even for material wealth, but for the second-hander's delusion - prestige. A stamp of approval, not his own. He can find no joy in the struggle and no joy when he has succeeded. He can't say about a single thing: 'This is what I wanted because I wanted it, not because it made my neighbors gape at me'. Then he wonders why he's unhappy.
Ayn Rand
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power or our will.
Epictetus
Woman is not made to be the admiration of all, but the happiness of one.
Edmund Burke
Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting some on yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.
Epictetus
Action may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action.
William James
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.
Aristotle
There are two ways to get enough. One is to continue to accumulate more and more. The other is to desire less.
G.K. Chesterton
The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the overcompensations for misery. And, of course, stability isn't nearly so spectacular as instability. And being contented has none of the glamour of a good fight against misfortune, none of the picturesqueness of a struggle with temptation, or a fatal overthrow by passion or doubt. Happiness is never grand.
Aldous Huxley
Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.
Ayn Rand
You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.
Albert Camus
For every minute you are angry you lose sixty seconds of happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I contemplated man's little spark, what it should be valued before God alongside of this great work of heaven and earth.
Jakob Böhme
A day in a storm strengthens you more than a thousand in sunshine.
Matshona Dhliwayo
It is in vain to hide a fruitful seed in fertile soil.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A single star shines brighter than a thousand moons.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The poor can dream. The weak can hope. The helpless can strive. The powerless can rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
To encourage people, walk beside them. To inspire people, walk in front of them. To drive people, walk behind them. To lead people, walk with them.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Wherever you go, go with all your heart.
Confucius
The struggles of the past are the gateway to the blessings of the future.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The storm is the optimist’s friend, but the pessimist’s nightmare.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A seed only begins to manifest its greatest potential the day it is buried in dirt.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Be the calm in someone else’s storm.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The loveliest roses sometimes bear the ugliest thorns.
Matshona Dhliwayo
If the sky never grew dark, we would not be able to clearly see the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A leaf has no power to resist when the wind blows, but when life’s storms rage, you do.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In thoughts, be wise. In speech, be cautious. In sentiment, be positive. In actions, be prudent.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The darkest storms color the brightest rainbows.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Learn from the ocean; not fearing turbulence, it uses the wind against it to rise instead.
Matshona Dhliwayo
A flower does not fulfill its destiny until it blooms, and a star does not fulfill its destiny until it shines.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In order for a seed to rise, it must be buried in dirt; likewise, in order for the great to rise they must be buried in adversity.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The sky is the limit only if you have a problem with reaching for the stars.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Bless the world with your mind, heal the world with your heart, lift the world with your soul; elevate the world with your life.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Don’t mourn over the past; it has no pity for you. Don’t cry over the present; it has no sympathy for you; and don’t weep over the future, it has no mercy on you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The only way to survive such shitty times, if you ask me, is to write and read big, fat books, you know? And I’m writing now another book on Hegelian dialectics, subjectivity, ontology, quantum physics and so on. That’s the only way to survive. Like Lenin. I will use his example. You know what Lenin did, in 1915, when World War I exploded? He went to Switzerland and started to read Hegel.
Slavoj Žižek
Wealth won’t make you happy. Power won’t make you remarkable. Fame won’t make you honorable. Education won’t make you wise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
In the body is tremendous strength, in the mind is brilliant potential, in the heart is extraordinary influence, and in the soul is remarkable power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Stars do not hide from darkness. Roses do not hide from thorns. Diamonds do not hide from pressure.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When a flower rises from the earth, it is overcoming its greatest opponent: fear.
Matshona Dhliwayo
The entire world above you, around you, beneath you, and beside you, is insignificant in comparison to the world within you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
When the storm runs out of breath, a rainbow is born.
Matshona Dhliwayo
No matter how low the sun sets, the time is coming when it will surely rise.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Planting a flower in the desert takes greater skill than growing a garden in a rain forest.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are a product of your environment, but to be great your environment has to be a product of you.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Joy gives you strength.Hope gives you fortitude.Faith gives you courage.Love gives you power.
Matshona Dhliwayo
You are no greater than the knowledge you acquire, the desires you harbor, and the experiences you cherish.
Matshona Dhliwayo
Use your mind’s talents diligently, your heart’s powers incredibly, and your soul’s genius profitably.
Matshona Dhliwayo