“Happiness comes from between. It comes from getting the right relationships between yourself and others, yourself and your work, and yourself and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I'll suggest that the happiness hypothesis offered by Buddha and the Stoics should be amended: Happiness comes from within, and happiness comes… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness can only be found within, by breaking attachments to external things and cultivating an attitude of acceptance. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness requires changing yourself and changing your world. It requires pursuing your own goals and fitting in with others. Different people at… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Love and work are crucial for human happiness because, when done well, they draw us out of ourselves and into connection with… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Suppose you read about a pill that you could take once a day to reduce anxiety and increase your contentment. Would you… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
America is very much about individual happiness, the right to expression, self-determination. In America you do need to point to harm befalls… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness is not the shallow state of feeling pleased and chipper all the time. Happiness is the state of a human being… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The final moment of success is often no more thrilling than taking off a heavy backpack at the end of a long… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Muller asserted that modern conservatism is really about creating the best possible society, the one that brings about the greatest happiness given… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Good relationships make people happy, and happy people enjoy more and better relationships than unhappy people.... Conflicts in relationships--having an annoying office… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Happiness doesn't come from getting what you want. It doesn't come from within, either. Happiness comes from *between*--from finding the right relationship… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Those who think money can't buy happiness just don't know where to shop … People would be happier and healthier if they… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
You can see the rider serving the elephant when people are morally dumbfounded. They have strong gut feelings about what is right and wrong,… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Congress is full of good, decent, smart people who have devoted their lives to public service. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
Once you understand the power of stimulus control, you can use it to your advantage by changing the stimuli in your environment and avoiding… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I got interested in the American culture war back in 2004, and it's one of the only growth stocks I've ever invested in. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a social scientist. In order to get hired and to get promoted, we're forced to declare a disciplinary and… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“We should not expect individuals to produce good, open-minded, truth-seeking reasoning, particularly when self-interest or reputational concerns are in play. But if you put… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
The most powerful force ever known on this planet is human cooperation - a force for construction and destruction. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
It only takes twenty generations of selective breeding to create large differences or appearance and behavior in other mammals. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
If you think half of America votes badly because they are stupid or religious, you are trapped in a matrix ... Take the red… — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“Our minds have the potential to become righteous about many different concerns, and only a few of these concerns are activated during childhood. Other” — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
