Happiness is at once the best, the noblest, and the pleasantest of things. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A man's happiness consists in the free exercise of his highest faculties. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is the utilization of one's talents along lines of excellence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness). — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is the highest good, being a realization and perfect practice of virtue, which some can attain, while others have little or… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“If it is better to be happy as a result of one's own exertions than by the gift of fortune, it is… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
But what is happiness? If we consider what the function of man is, we find that happiness is a virtuous activity of… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
¢Some identify Happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophical wisdom, others add or exclude pleasure and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Now the goodness that we have to consider is clearly human goodness, since the good or happiness which we set out to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“As far as the name goes, we may almist say that the great majority of mankind are agreed about this; for both… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness itself is sufficient excuse. Beautiful things are right and true; so beautiful actions are those pleasing to the gods. Wise men… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True happiness comes from gaining insight and growing into your best possible self. Otherwise all you're having is immediate gratification pleasure, which… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
When...we, as individuals, obey laws that direct us to behave for the welfare of the community as a whole, we are indirectly… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A state is an association of similar persons whose aim is the best life possible. What is best is happiness, and to… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness involves engagement in activities that promote one's highest potentials. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy life is thought to be one of excellence; now an excellent life requires exertion, and does not consist in amusement. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Happiness lies in virtuous activity, and perfect happiness lies in the best activity, which is contemplative — Aristotle Copy Share Image
A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The happy life is regarded as a life in conformity with virtue. It is a life which involves effort and is not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“One swallow does not make a summer, neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Character gives us qualities, but it is in actions - what we do - that we are happy or the reverse. ...… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“Happiness, therefore, being found to be something final; and self-sufficient, is the end at which all actions aim.” — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“He is happy who lives in accordance with complete virtue and is sufficiently equipped with external goods, not for some chance period… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the soul admittedly contributes greatly to the advance of truth in general, and, above all, to our understanding of Nature, for… — Aristotle Copy Share
Young men have strong passions and tend to gratify them indiscriminately. Of the bodily desires, it is the sexual by which they are most… — Aristotle Copy Share
The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five; the mind is at its best about the age of forty-nine. — Aristotle Copy Share
The ensouled is distinguished from the unsouled by its being alive. Now since being alive is spoken of in many ways, even if only… — Aristotle Copy Share
Although it may be difficult in theory to know what is just and equal, the practical difficulty of inducing those to forbear who can,… — Aristotle Copy Share
The true forms of government, therefore, are those in which the one, or the few, or the many, govern with a view to the… — Aristotle Copy Share
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established. — Aristotle Copy Share
Give a man a fish, you feed him for a day. Give a man a poisoned fish, you feed him for the rest of… — Aristotle Copy Share
Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish. — Aristotle Copy Share
Happiness does not consist in pastimes and amusements but in virtuous activities. — Aristotle Copy Share
To learn is a natural pleasure, not confined to philosophers, but common to all men. — Aristotle Copy Share
