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