Quotes About Philosophy

Do not weep; do not wax indignant. Understand.

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

In acute suffering the need for meaning is as strong or stronger than the need for happiness.

The ultimate destiny of the human race is the greatest moral perfection, provided that it is achieved through human freedom, whereby alone man is capable of the greatest happiness.

If thou wilt make a man happy, add not unto his riches but take away from his desires.

Outside of that single fatality of death, everything, joy or happiness, is liberty.

Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

The key to happiness is accepting one unpleasant reality every day.

I'm not a big proponent of happiness. I think it's highly overrated. I think misery is underrated. There's so much value in that. You can't have one without the other.

It's like Tolstoy said. Happiness is an allegory, unhappiness a story.

Constant happiness is the philosopher's stone of the soul.

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.

JOY goes against the foundations of mathematics: it multiplies when we divide.

The day of individual happiness has passed.

What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Those two, in paradise, were given a choice: happiness without freedom, or freedom without happiness. There was no third alternative.

Happiness, though an indefinite concept, is the goal of all rational beings

Let's assume there really is no such thing as happiness, no such thing as peace, and no freedom either. But there are kind of attacks of senseless ecstasy. Can this be me?

Happiness and the absurd are two sons of the same earth. They are inseparable.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.