Quotes by Philosophers - Page 40

Heaven means to be one with God.
Confucius
Man can hardly even recognize the devils of his own creation.
Albert Schweitzer
It is not a lack of love but a lack of friendship that makes unhappy marriages.
Friedrich Nietzsche
The way to love anything is to realize that it might be lost.
G.K. Chesterton
We have two ears and only one tongue in order that we may hear more and speak less.
Diogenes
The fate of a nation has often depended on the good or bad digestion of a prime minister.
Voltaire
The first wealth is health.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The art of medicine consists of amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.
Voltaire
Whenever I feel like exercise I lie down until the feeling passes.
Robert M. Hutchins
Hatred is settled anger.
Cicero
Passionate hatred can give meaning and purpose to an empty life.
Eric Hoffer
Whom they have injured they also hate.
Seneca
A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.
Simone Weil
Few people can be happy unless they hate some other person nation or creed.
Bertrand Russell
Hatred comes from the heart contempt from the head and neither feeling is quite within our control.
Arthur Schopenhauer
Who can refute a sneer?
William Paley
A happy life consists in tranquility of mind.
Cicero
A happy life is one which is in accordance with its own nature.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Happy is he who still loves something he loved in the nursery: He has not been broken in two by time he is not two men but one and he has saved not only his soul but his life.
G.K. Chesterton
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart Mill
Man is the artificer of his own happiness.
Henry David Thoreau
The greatest happiness of the greatest number.
Cesare Beccaria
Happiness? That's nothing more than health and a poor memory.
Albert Schweitzer
The world of those who are happy is different from the world of those who are not.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
Ayn Rand
A great obstacle to happiness is to expect too much happiness.
Bernard de Fontenelle
No man is happy unless he believes he is.
Publilius Syrus
There are men who are happy without knowing it.
Vauvenargues
Perfect happiness is the absence of striving for happiness.
Chuang-tzu
Unquestionably it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
John Stuart Mill
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.
John Stuart Mill
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Bertrand Russell
To live we must conquer incessantly we must have the courage to be happy.
Henri-Frédéric Amiel
It is in virtue that happiness consists for virtue is the state of mind which tends to make the whole of life harmonious.
Zeno
No man can be merry unless he is serious.
G.K. Chesterton
The happiest man is he who learns from nature the lesson of worship.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
And may I live the remainder of my life ... for myself may there be plenty of books and many years' store of the fruits of the earth!
Horace
Happiness seems to require a modicum of external prosperity.
Aristotle
Money is human happiness in the abstract he then who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.
Arthur Schopenhauer
The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.
Epictetus
Continuity of purpose is one of the most essential ingredients of happiness in the long run and for most men this comes chiefly through their work.
Bertrand Russell
Life without absorbing occupation is hell.
Elbert Hubbard
Get happiness out of your work or you may never know what happiness is.
Elbert Hubbard
When men are rightly occupied their amusement grows out of their work as the color-petals out of a fruitful flower.
John Ruskin
A man is relieved and gay when he has put his heart into his work and done his best.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Blessed is he who has found his work let him ask no other blessedness. He has a work a life-purpose. ... Get your happiness out of your work or you will never know what real happiness is. ... Even in the meanest sorts of labor the whole soul of a man is composed into a kind of real harmony the instant he sets himself to work.
Thomas Carlyle
They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations.
Francis Bacon
To find out what one is fitted to do and to secure an opportunity to do it is the key to happiness.
John Dewey
The high prize of life the crowning fortune of man is to be born with a bias to some pursuit which finds him in employment and happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.
Marcus Aurelius
A man's as miserable as he thinks he is.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
The most satisfying thing in life is to have been able to give a large part of oneself to others.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.
Bertrand Russell
No man can live happily who regards himself alone who turns everything to his own advantage. Thou must live for another if thou wishest to live for thyself.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Instinct teaches us to look for happiness outside ourselves.
Blaise Pascal
One thing I know: the only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions-the little soon-forgotten charities of a kiss or smile a kind look a heart-felt compliment and the countless infinitesimals of pleasurable and genial feeling.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
I know well that happiness is in little things.
John Ruskin
A man's happiness: to do the things proper to man.
Marcus Aurelius
Happy [is] the man who knows his duties!
Christian Furchtegott Gellert