Happiness Quotes by Yuval Noah Harari

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Without government planning, economic resources and scientific research, individuals will not get far in their quest for happiness.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“new cathedral. So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Perhaps it is also wrong to consider only the happiness of humans.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Perhaps the key to happiness is neither the race nor the gold medal, but rather combining the right doses of excitement and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Humans are extremely good in acquiring new power, but they are not very good in translating this power into greater happiness, which…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Philosophers, priests and poets have brooded over the nature of happiness for millennia, and many have concluded that social, ethical and spiritual…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Once we abandon the homo-centric world view in favour of a data-centric world view, human health and happiness may seem far less…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“happiness is not the surplus of pleasant over unpleasant moments. Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“However, if they believed the promise of everlasting bliss in the afterlife, they may well have viewed their lives as far more…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People with strong families who live in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Family and community seem to have more impact on our happiness than money and health. People with strong families who live in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Rather, happiness consists in seeing one’s life in its entirety as meaningful and worthwhile. There is an important cognitive and ethical component…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So perhaps happiness is synchronising one’s personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The problem, according to Buddhism, is that our feelings are no more than fleeting vibrations, changing every moment, like the ocean waves.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Success breeds ambition, and our recent achievements are now pushing humankind to set itself even more daring goals. Having secured unprecedented levels…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“At the end of the eighteenth century the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham declared that the supreme good is ‘the greatest happiness of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Having secured unprecedented levels of prosperity, health and harmony, and given our past record and our current values, humanity’s next targets are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If happiness is determined by expectations, then two pillars of our society – mass media and the advertising industry – may unwittingly…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“This Buddhist view of happiness has a lot in common with the biochemical view. Both agree that pleasant sensations disappear as fast…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The crucial importance of human expectations has far-reaching implications for understanding the history of happiness. If happiness depended only on objective conditions…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When Epicurus defined happiness as the supreme good, he warned his disciples that it is hard work to be happy. Material achievements…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Nobody is ever made happy by winning the lottery, buying a house, getting a promotion or even finding true love. People are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Liberal politics is based on the idea that the voters know best, and there is no need for Big Brother to tell…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Countries measured their success by the size of their territory, the increase in their population and the growth of their GDP –…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Some scholars compare human biochemistry to an air-conditioning system that keeps the temperature constant, come heatwave or snowstorm. Events might momentarily change…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The prediction that in the twenty-first century humankind is likely to aim for immortality, bliss and divinity may anger, alienate or frighten…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“There is only one historical development that has real significance. Today, when we finally realise that the keys to happiness are in…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If I identify happiness with fleeting pleasant sensations, and crave to experience more and more of them, I have no choice but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“science says that nobody is ever made happy by getting a promotion, winning the lottery or even finding true love. People are…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In pursuit of health, happiness and power, humans will gradually change first one of their features and then another, and another, until…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“humans may be unable to do so. The coming technological bonanza will probably make it feasible to feed and support these useless…

— Yuval Noah Harari

The basic human reaction to pleasure is not satisfaction, but rather craving for more. Hence, no matter what we achieve, it only…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“So perhaps happiness is synchronizing one's personal delusions of meaning with the prevailing collective delusions. As long as my personal narrative is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Yet over the last few decades the tables have turned, and Bentham’s vision has been taken far more seriously. People increasingly believe…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“When the flames are completely extinguished, craving is replaced by a state of perfect contentment and serenity, known as nirvana (the literal…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The right to the pursuit of happiness, originally envisaged as a restraint on state power, has imperceptibly morphed into the right to…

— Yuval Noah Harari