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[filed under theme 22. Metaethics / C. The Good / 2. Happiness / d. Routes to happiness
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Full Idea
A happy life must to a great extent be a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live.
Gist of Idea
A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life
Source
Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness [1930], 4)
Book Ref
Russell,Bertrand: 'The Conquest of Happiness' [Unwin 1961], p.44
A Reaction
Most people's image of happiness is absorption in an interesting task, or relaxing in good company. The idea that happiness is wild excitement exists, but is a minority view.
The
33 ideas
with the same theme
[how can happiness be achieved?]:
5835
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The road of freedom is the surest route to happiness
[Aristippus elder, by Xenophon]
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24223
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Admirable people are happy, and unjust people are miserable
[Plato]
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332
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One should exercise both the mind and the body, to avoid imbalance
[Plato]
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17947
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Plato decided that the virtuous and happy life was the philosophical life
[Plato, by Nehamas]
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7812
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For peace of mind, you need self-government, indifference and independence
[Diogenes of Sin.]
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5139
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If happiness can be achieved by study and effort, then it is open to anyone who is not corrupt
[Aristotle]
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39
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Happiness needs total goodness and a complete life
[Aristotle]
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5144
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Happiness is activity in accordance with complete virtue, for a whole life, with adequate external goods
[Aristotle]
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100
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The happy life is in accordance with goodness, which implies seriousness
[Aristotle]
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106
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The best life is that of the intellect, since that is in the fullest sense the man
[Aristotle]
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5865
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Happiness involves three things, of which the greatest is either wisdom, virtue, or pleasure
[Aristotle]
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5850
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Happiness is composed of a catalogue of internal and external benefits
[Aristotle]
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14059
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The best life is not sensuality, but rational choice and healthy opinion
[Epicurus]
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20865
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Happiness is the end and goal, achieved by living virtuously, in agreement, and according to nature
[Stoic school, by Stobaeus]
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22756
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If a desire is itself desirable, then we shouldn't desire it, as achieving it destroys it
[Sext.Empiricus]
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6678
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We live for the past or future, and so are never happy in the present
[Pascal]
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7917
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Realising our future misery is a kind of happiness
[Rochefoucauld]
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4860
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Man's highest happiness consists of perfecting his understanding, or reason
[Spinoza]
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5019
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Supreme human happiness is the greatest possible increase of his perfection
[Leibniz]
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7538
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The happiest people link the beginning and end of life
[Goethe]
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21371
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We can never attain happiness while our will is pursuing desires
[Schopenhauer]
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7076
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Mill wondered if he would be happy if all his aims were realised, and answered no
[Mill, by Critchley]
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14849
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We can only achieve happy moments, not happy eras
[Nietzsche]
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7159
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The only happiness is happiness with illusion
[Nietzsche]
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14884
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The shortest path to happiness is forgetfulness, the path of animals (but of little value)
[Nietzsche]
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24111
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Happiness is the active equilibrium of our drives
[Nietzsche]
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5655
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Happiness is not satisfaction of desires, but fulfilment of values
[Bradley, by Scruton]
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20180
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A happy and joyous life must largely be a quiet life
[Russell]
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21743
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In wartime, happiness is hating the enemy, because it gives the war a purpose
[Russell]
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9227
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We might not choose a very moral life, if the character or constitution was deficient
[Frankfurt]
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4650
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The quality of a life is not altogether independent of its length
[Glover]
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20154
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Control is the key to well-being
[Kekes]
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20157
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Well-being needs correct attitudes and well-ordered commitments to local values
[Kekes]
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