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Goethe said:
"The most happy man is he who knows how to bring into relation
the end and beginning of his life."
From Quotable Quotes:
http://www.quotablequotes.net/search.asp?type=Author&searchdb=Goethe
and:
"Alas! sorrow from happiness is oft evolved."
From BrainyQuote:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/j/q118696.html
Sartre said, on Americanism:
"There are the great myths, that of Happiness, that of
Progress, that of Liberty, that of triumphant maternity;
there is realism, optimism and then there are the
Americans who at first are nothing, who grow among these
colossal statues and disentangle themselves as best as
they can in the midst of them."
"Ah, and the myth of Happiness; there are those
spellbinding slogans which advise you how to be happy
as quickly as possible; there are the films with the
happy endings, which every evening show life in rose
colors to harassed crowds."
From Think magazine in Prague:
http://www.think.cz/issue/04/5.html
Nietzsche said:
"... hitherto we have been permitted to seek beauty only
in the morally good - a fact which sufficiently accounts
for our having found so little of it and having had to
seek about for imaginary beauties without backbone! - As
surely as the wicked enjoy a hundred kinds of happiness
of which the virtuous have no inkling, so too they
possess a hundred kinds of beauty; and many of them
have not yet been discovered."
From Bill Curry's site at the University of Pittsburgh:
http://www.pitt.edu/~wbcurry/nietzsche/nmoral.html
and:
"The formula of our happiness: a Yes, a No, a straight line,
a goal..."
"What is happiness? -- The feeling that power increases --
that resistance is being overcome."
From Roderick T Long's Praxeology.net:
http://www.praxeology.net/antichrist.htm
John Locke said:
"Because the removal of uneasiness is the first step to
happiness../..that which of course determines the choice
of our will to the next action will always be- the
removing of pain, as long as we have any left, as the
first and necessary step towards happiness."
From Roger Bishop Jones' website:
http://www.rbjones.com/rbjpub/philos/classics/locke/ctb2c21.htm#36
Immanuel Kant said:
"Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination."
From BrainyQuote.com
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/i/q105554.html
and:
"It is a very difficult thing to make a man happy from making
him good."
From the Memorial University of Newfoundland Philosophy Dept:
http://www.mun.ca/phil/codgito/vol2/v2doc5.html
Aristotle said:
"Verbally there is very general agreement; for both the
general run of men and people of superior refinement say
that it is eudaimonia [happiness. prosperity, or good
fortune], and identify living well and doing well with
being happy."
From the Memorial University of Newfoundland Philosophy Dept:
http://www.mun.ca/phil/codgito/vol2/v2doc5.html
and:
"Happiness depends upon ourselves."
From BrainyQoute.com:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/a/q138768.html
and:
"It remains to recapitulate the sum of our conclusions
regarding happiness. It is not a habit, but lies in the
habitual activities--desirable in and for themselves not
as means--exercised deliberately, excluding mere amusement.
Man's highest faculty being intelligence, its activity is
his highest happiness--contemplation; constant, sufficient,
and sought not as a means but as an end."
From PublicBookshelf.com
http://www.publicbookshelf.com/public_html/Outline_of_Great_Books_Volume_I/aristotle_bde.html
Rene Descartes said:
"Happiness depends only on things which are outside ourselves,
from which it follows that those persons are esteemed happier
than sages, to whom some good happens that they have not
obtained for themselves, while blessedness consists, it seems
to me, in a perfect contentment of mind and an internal
satisfaction, which those who are most favored by fortune do
not ordinarily have, and which the sages acquire without the
help of fortune."
From the Bradley University History Department:
http://www.bradley.edu/academics/las/his/Happiness/00definitions
David Hume said:
"Good or ill fortune is very little at our disposal: And when
a person, that has this sensibility of temper, meets with any
misfortune, his sorrow or resentment takes entire possession
of him, and deprives him of all relish in the common
occurrences of life; the right enjoyment of which
forms the chief part of our happiness."
"Philosophers have endeavoured to render happiness entirely
independent of every thing external. That degree of
perfection is impossible to he attained: But every wise
man will endeavour to place his happiness on such objects
chiefly as depend upon himself: And that is not to be
attained so much by any other means as by this delicacy
of sentiment. When a man is possessed of that talent, he
is more happy by what pleases his taste, than by what
gratifies his appetites, and receives more enjoyment
from a poem or a piece of reasoning than the most
expensive luxury can afford."
From 'Delicacy Of Taste And Delicacy Of Passion', an essay
by David Hume on OurCivilization.com, by Phillip Atkinson:
http://www.ourcivilisation.com/smartboard/shop/humed/delicacy.htm
Søren Kierkegaard said:
"Most men pursue pleasure with such breathless haste
they hurry past it."
From SpiritWalk.org:
http://www.spiritwalk.org/swquotes/happiness.htm
Bertrand Russell said:
"The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be
as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things
and persons that interest you be as far as possible
friendly rather than hostile."
From BrainyQuote.com:
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/quotes/b/q121542.html
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from PhilosophyPages.com:
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