Quotes About Happiness

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Das Ziel des Weisen ist nicht Glück zu erlangen, sondern Unglück zu vermeiden.

happiness does not consist in amusement. In fact, it would be strange if our end were amusement, and if we were to labor and suffer hardships all our life long merely to amuse ourselves.... The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not spent in amusement....

Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.

Happiness is a quality of the soul...not a function of one's material circumstances.

There is an ideal of excellence for any particular craft or occupation; similarly there must be an excellent that we can achieve as human beings. That is, we can live our lives as a whole in such a way that they can be judged not just as excellent in this respect or in that occupation, but as excellent, period. Only when we develop our truly human capacities sufficiently to achieve this human excellent will we have lives blessed with happiness.

Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself

It is their character indeed that makes people who they are. But it is by reason of their actions that they are happy or the reverse.

He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.

Wealth is evidently not the good we are seeking; for it is merely useful and for the sake of something else.

Happiness then, is found to be something perfect and self sufficient, being the end to which our actions are directed.

Now it is evident that the form of government is best in which every man, whoever he is, can act best and live happily.

The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness

Justice is the loveliest and health is the best, but the sweetest to obtain is the heart's desire.

All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind of action.

The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. If Eudaimonia, or happiness, is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence; and this will be that of the best thing in us.

What is the Good for man? It must be the ultimate end or object of human life: something that is in itself completely satisfying. Happiness fits this description…we always choose it for itself, and never for any other reason.

Therefore the activity of God, which surpasses all others in blessedness, must be contemplative; and of human activities, therefore, that which is most akin to this must be most of the nature of happiness

good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing. The end of all action, individual or collective, is the greatest happiness of the greatest number.

Happiness is a kind of activity of the soul; whereas the remaining good things are either merely indispensable conditions of happiness, or are of the nature of auxiliary means, and useful instrumentally.

The quality of life is determined by its activities.

Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.

Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the general run of men and people of superior refinement say that it is happiness, and identify living well and doing well with being happy; but with regard to what happiness is they differ, and the many do not give the same account as the wise.

There is one end we all have – not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being – and that is happiness.