Feelings Quote by Bertrand Russell

Philosophy can add to our happiness in no other manner but by diminishing our misery; it should not pretend to increase our present stock,…

— Oliver Goldsmith

Philosophy first constructs a scheme of happiness and then tries to fit the world to it.

— H. L. Mencken

Therefore, philosophy does not give sense in mind happiness. It keeps in mind the only truth. However, it is very possible that the truth…

— Marcel Conche

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

— Epictetus

“When I was a young philosopher, I asked a senior colleague, Pat Suppes (then and now a famous philosopher of science and an astute…

— John R. Perry

Happiness comes from theperfect practice of virtue.

— Aristotle

“By the aid of philosophy you will live not unpleasantly, for you will learn to extract pleasure from all places and things: wealth will…

— Plutarch

Happiness is prosperity combined with virtue.

— Aristotle

Let us face ourselves bravely as we are. For only a philosophy that recognizes reality can lead us into true happiness, and only that…

— Lin Yutang

“Nature and Passion are powerful, but they are also full of grief. True happiness would have the calm and order of bourgeois routine without…

— W.H. Auden

The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish, and…

— Robert Henri

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

— Yuval Noah Harari