25 | You can be good while asleep, or passive, or in pain [Aristotle] |
5136 | Happiness seems to involve virtue, or practical reason, or wisdom, or pleasure, or external goods [Aristotle] |
5868 | Horses, birds and fish are not happy, lacking a divine aspect to their natures [Aristotle] |
22753 | Happiness for the Stoics was an equable flow of life [Stoic school, by Sext.Empiricus] |
13303 | A man is as unhappy as he has convinced himself he is [Seneca] |
13550 | To be always happy is to lack knowledge of one half of nature [Seneca] |
6922 | Ecstasy is for the neo-Platonist the highest psychological state of man [Plotinus, by Feuerbach] |
5756 | Happiness is a good which once obtained leaves nothing more to be desired [Boethius] |
12927 | Happiness is advancement towards perfection [Leibniz] |
6252 | Happiness is a pleasant sensation, or continued state of such sensations [Hutcheson] |
6193 | Our happiness is all that matters, not as a sensation, but as satisfaction with our whole existence [Kant] |
1452 | Happiness is the condition of a rational being for whom everything goes as they wish [Kant] |
23274 | World history has no room for happiness [Hegel] |
4172 | Happiness is the swift movement from desire to satisfaction, and then again on to desire [Schopenhauer] |
7168 | Modest people express happiness as 'Not bad' [Nietzsche] |
22497 | Deep happiness usually comes from the basic things in life [Foot] |
22498 | Happiness is enjoying the pursuit and attainment of right ends [Foot] |
5079 | Pleasure can have a location, and be momentary, and come and go - but happiness can't [Taylor,R] |