Quotes About Philosophy

Happiness cannot be pursued; it must ensue.

I had little talent for happiness.

Since eternity means happiness for you, what does it matter if some of these passing moments are unpleasant?

It is impossible to live in the past, difficult to live in the present and a waste to live in the future.

I don't believe that happiness is possible, but I think tranquility is.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Misery is what happiness rests upon. Happiness is what misery lurks beneath.

I don't believe in happiness anyway... it's too much of an American pastime, this search for happiness. Just forget happiness and enjoy your misery.

I'm constantly tortured, and that's why I say happiness is irrelevant. Happiness is for children and yuppies.

If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

Happiness is only to be found in a recurrence to the principles of human nature; and these will prompt very simple measures.

Religious belief is not a precondition either of ethical conduct or of happiness.

There is only one inborn error. and that is the notion that we exist in order to be happy.

Happiness cannot be the reward of virtue; it must be the intelligible consequence of it.

The way of paradoxes is the way of truth. To test Reality we must see it on the tight-rope.

Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them; he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.

The happiest person is the person who thinks the most interesting thoughts.

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

I have sometimes suspected that the only thing that holds no mystery is happiness, because it is its own justification.

From the Taoist point of view, the natural result of this harmonious way of living is happiness.

Happiness is always a by-product. It is probably a matter of temperament, and for anything I know it may be glandular.

The mind is a matter over every kind of fortune; itself acts in both ways, being the cause of its own happiness and misery.

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.