Quotes about Happiness
Happiness belongs to the self-sufficient.
- Aristotle
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself
- Aristotle
He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period but throughout a complete life.
- Aristotle
The cultivation of the intellect is man's highest good and purest happiness
- Aristotle
Happiness seems to depend on leisure, because we work to have leisure, and wage war to live in peace.
- Aristotle
There is one end we all have — not in virtue of being rational, but simply in virtue of being human being — and that is happiness.
- Aristotle
good character is the indispensable condition and chief determinant of happiness, itself the goal of all human doing.
- Aristotle
Again, it is for the sake of the soul that goods external and goods of the body are eligible at all, and all wise men ought to choose them for the sake of the soul, and not the soul for the sake of them.
- Aristotle
Happiness then is the best, noblest, and most pleasant thing in the world, and these attributes are not severed as in the inscription at Delos- Most noble is that which is justest, and best is health; But pleasantest is it to win what we love.
- Aristotle
The many, the most vulgar, would seem to conceive the good and happiness as pleasure, and hence they also like the life of gratification. Here they appear completely slavish, since the life they decide on is a life for grazing animals.
- Aristotle
Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and pursuit, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason is the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.
- Aristotle
Happiness is the exercise of talent, along the lines of excellence.
- Aristotle