Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have. — Josh Billings Copy Share Image
The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness. — Heinrich Mann Copy Share Image
Personal liberty is the paramount essential to human dignity and human happiness. — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of… — Lillian Wald Copy Share Image
Anxiety and Ennui are the Scylla and Charybdis on which the bark of human happiness is most often wrecked. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky Copy Share Image
Human happiness is defined by the hardships and conflicts you have been through. The greater they are, the greater is your happiness. — Peter Deunov Copy Share Image
“There is an ascendant feeling among the people that all achievement should be measured in human happiness.” — Walter Lippmann Copy Share Image
All human happiness revolves around love. Love is central to the bonds on which a family is built. — Margaret Way Copy Share Image
Money is human happiness in the abstract: he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
Of all the cankers of human happiness none corrodes with so silent, yet so baneful an influence, as indolence — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
In my opinion it is the happy living, and not, as Antisthenes said, the happy lying, in which human happiness consists. — Michel de Montaigne Copy Share Image
All that has been done to weaken the foundation of an implicit faith in the Bible, as a whole, has been at… — J. G. Holland Copy Share Image
If we cherish the virtues and the principles of our fathers, Heaven will assist us to carry on the work of human… — Daniel Webster Copy Share Image
It is the activity of the intellect that constitutes complete human happiness - provided it be granted a complete span of life,… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“But freedom and human happiness has a direct relationship to the number of people who have power over their own world, their… — Robert Jackson Bennett Copy Share Image
Those influences which really make and mar human happiness and greatness are beyond the reach of the law. The law can keep… — Walter Rauschenbusch Copy Share Image
Government should enforce rule of law. It should enforce contracts, it should protect people bodily from being attacked by criminals. And when… — Grover Norquist Copy Share Image
I consider a good reputation is a great part of the human happiness. Some people, if they are very, very rich can… — Aristotle Onassis Copy Share Image
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though these ingredients ought to be mixed in different… — David Hume Copy Share Image
The biographies of great artists make it abundantly clear that the creative urge is often so imperious that it battens on their… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“I call myself the last philosopher, because I am the last man. No one speaks with me but myself, and my voice… — Friedrich Nietzsche "Oedipus Soliloquy of the Last Philosopher Copy Share Image
“We advocate the atheistic philosophy because it is the only clear, consistent position which seems possible to us. As atheists, we simply… — E. Haldeman-Julius Copy Share Image
“The greatest obstacle to pleasure is not pain; it is delusion. The principal enemies of human happiness are inordinate desire—the fantasy of… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
In recent years our knowledge of modern technology has increased considerably, and as a result we have witnessed remarkable material progress, but… — Geshe Kelsang Gyatso Copy Share Image
The establishment of our new Government seemed to be the last great experiment for promoting human happiness by reasonable compact in civil… — George Washington Copy Share Image
“...Freud's theory of self-determination...argues that human beings need three things in order to be content: They need to feel competent at what… — Billy Baker Copy Share Image
“Only the gods have many destinies and need never die. They are filled with everything and experience everything. Everything - except human… — Pär Lagerkvist Copy Share Image
“As Christians we face two tasks in our evangelism: saving the soul and saving the mind, that is to say, not only… — William Lane Craig Copy Share Image
“The bulk of the population of every country is persuaded that all marriage customs other than its own are immoral, and that… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Expectations make one weak. It tells you what you seek, but deep down when you look within, you know that when you… — Debatrayee Banerjee Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“I've thought of myself a girl on several occasions because I like to polish shoes and find household tasks amusing. There was… — Robert Walser Copy Share Image
“After the usual politeness, the Citizen Brotteaux resumed the thread of his discourse: 'Those who make a trade out of foretelling the… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
“Afterwards, sometimes she dared to remember being in his arms. How, after only clumsy couplings with others, she and this man had… — Lindsey Davis Copy Share Image
“Science has never killed or persecuted a single person for doubting or denying its teaching, and most of these teaching have been… — Gratis P. Spencer Copy Share Image