Quotes About Philosophy

There is, after all, a kind of happiness in unhappiness, if it's the right unhappiness.

Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things.

It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.

Happiness too is inevitable.

And, indeed, I will at this point ask an idle question on my own account: which is better — cheap happiness or exalted sufferings? Well, which is better?

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Maybe happiness too is a metaphor invented on a day of boredom

For surely to be wise is the most desirable thing in all the world.

The foundation of all happiness in thinking rightly.

Reason and happiness are like other flowers; they wither when plucked.

Take all that you can of this book upon reason, and the balance on faith, and you will live and die a happier man. (When a skeptic expressed surprise to see him reading a Bible)

For who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering

Indeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.

The hour when you say, "What does my happiness matter? It is poverty and filth, and a wretched complacency. Yet my happiness should justify existence itself!

Oh, how quickly things changed! Why didn't happiness last for ever? For ever wasn't a bit too long.

It appeared to me obvious that the happiness of mankind should be the aim of all action, and I discovered to my surprise that there were those who thought otherwise.

It isn't happiness I am concerned with but experience.

I am deeply convinced that happiness does not exist in this world

My own view is that Kant's conception of the duality of the good (morality and happiness, the good of our person and the good of our state or condition) is a distinctively modern view.

How rarely can happiness be really innocent and not triumphant, not an insult to the deprived.

He that upon a true principle lives, without any disquiet of thought, may be said to be happy.

The flip side of happiness is suffering.

I want to show that there are indeed some universal ethical principles which could help everyone to achieve the happiness we all aspire to.

If the Wise be the happy man... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation.