Quotes by Philosophers - Page 41

The only ones among you who will be really happy are those who will have sought and found how to serve.
Albert Schweitzer
He is happy whose circumstances suit his temper but he is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstances.
David Hume
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.
George Santayana
Happiness ... can exist only in acceptance.
Denis de Rougemont
When we ... devote ourselves to the strict and unsparing performance of duty then happiness comes of itself.
Wilhelm von Humboldt
Never mind your happiness do your duty.
Will Durant
Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.
Aristotle
Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.
William James
To fill the hour and leave no crevice ... that is happiness.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?
Albert Camus
Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.
Ayn Rand
It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself.
Thomas Paine
Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste that they hurry past it.
Søren Kierkegaard
Happiness is something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.
Aldous Huxley
Seek not happiness too greedily and be not fearful of unhappiness.
Lao Tzu
Manifest plainness Embrace simplicity Reduce selfishness Have few desires.
Lao Tzu
The first rule is to keep an untroubled spirit. The second is to look things in the face and know them for what they are.
Marcus Aurelius
To live happily is an inward power of the soul.
Marcus Aurelius
The way of a superior man is threefold: Virtuous he is free from anxieties wise he is free from perplexities bold he is free from fear.
Confucius
If thou workest at that which is before thee ... expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
What can be added to the happiness of man who is in health out of debt and has a clear conscience?
Adam Smith
Five great enemies to peace inhabit us: avarice ambition envy anger and pride. If those enemies were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depend upon himself and not upon other men has adopted the very best plan for living happily.
Plato
Learn how to feel joy.
Seneca
How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.
Publilius Syrus
Happiness depends upon ourselves.
Aristotle
Happiness belongs to those who are sufficient unto themselves. For all external sources of happiness and pleasure are by their very nature highly uncertain precarious ephemeral and subject to chance.
Arthur Schopenhauer
When I have been unhappy I have heard an opera ... and it seemed the shrieking of winds when I am happy a sparrow's chirp is delicious to me. But it is not the chirp that makes me happy but I that make it sweet.
John Ruskin
Nothing can bring you peace but yourself.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Discontent is want of self-reliance it is infirmity of will.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
False happiness renders men stern and proud and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders kind and sensible and that happiness is always shared.
Charles de Montesquieu
All men have happiness as their object: there are no exceptions. However different the means they employ they aim at the same end.
Blaise Pascal
Love by its very nature is unworldly and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that it is not only apolitical but anti-political perhaps the most powerful of all anti-political human forces.
Hannah Arendt
The true object of all human life is play.
G.K. Chesterton
There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
George Santayana
Living well and beautifully and justly are all one thing.
Socrates
Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life the whole aim and end of human existence
Aristotle
Happiness is the only sanction in life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
Unhappy is the man though he rule the world who doesn't consider himself supremely blessed.
Marcus Annaeus Seneca
Surfeits of happiness are fatal.
Baltasar Gracián
Everyone without exception is searching for happiness.
Blaise Pascal
You will live wisely if you are happy in your lot.
Horace
I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own.
Cicero
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.
George Santayana
If we cannot live so as to be happy let us at least live so as to deserve it.
Immanuel Hermann von Fichte
To be happy we must not be too concerned with others.
Albert Camus
There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.
Epictetus
I believe in the possibility of happiness if one cultivates intuition and outlives the grosser passions including optimism.
George Santayana
Happiness: a good bank account a good cook and a good digestion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The will of man is his happiness.
Friedrich von Schiller
If thou workest at that which is before thee following right reason seriously vigorously calmly without allowing anything else to distract thee but keeping thy divine part pure as if thou shouldst be bound to give it back immediately if thou holdest to this expecting nothing fearing nothing but satisfied with thy present activity according to Nature and with heroic truth in every word and sound which thou utterest thou wilt live happy. And there is no man who is able to prevent this.
Marcus Aurelius
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
Jeremy Bentham
Servitude debases men to the point where they end up liking it.
Vauvenargues
Happiness is a mystery like religion and it should never be rationalized.
G.K. Chesterton
There is nothing sacred about convention there is nothing sacred about primitive passions or whims but the fact that a convention exists indicates that a way of living has been devised capable of maintaining itself.
George Santayana
Habit is stronger than reason.
George Santayana
The despotism of custom is everywhere standing up to human advancement.
John Stuart Mill
Habit is the enormous flywheel of society its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding or regretting of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
William James
He who does anything because it is the custom makes no choice.
John Stuart Mill