Earnest Quote by Bertrand Russell

One of the standards on which your happiness is based, now and in your future, is moral purity.

— Ezra Taft Benson

All sober inquirers after truth, ancient and modern, pagan and Christian, have declared that the happiness of man, as well as his dignity, consists…

— John Adams

Among many parallels which men of imagination have drawn between the natural and moral state of the world, it has been observed that happiness…

— Samuel Johnson

When the accumulation of wealth is no longer of high social importance, there will be great changes in the code of morals. We shall…

— John Maynard Keynes

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well-deceived

— Jonathan Swift

“The principle of private happiness, however, is the most objectionable, not merely because it is false, and experience contradicts the supposition that prosperity is…

— Immanuel Kant

Past happiness augments present wretchedness.

— Publilius Syrus

It may here be justly said, that genuine morality is preserved only in the school of adversity, and a state of continuous prosperity may…

— Friedrich Schiller

“We grow crisp and crotchety, fully half our organs ignore our commands--whistling to themselves, as it were, while we struggle to bring them to…

— Mark Slouka

That wealth and greatness are often regarded with the respect and admiration which are due only to wisdom and virtue; and that the contempt,…

— Adam Smith

To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.

— Pierre-Claude-Victor Boiste

“Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life – and being successful.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche