Happiness Quote by Charles Van Doren

“The last part, the part you're now approaching, was for Aristotle the most important for happiness.”

Charles Van Doren

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I worked hard at memorizing lists of facts and figures, and carried with me a book of facts.

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My total winnings after 14 appearances were $129,000.

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I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

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I was involved, deeply involved, in a deception... I have deceived my friends - and I had millions of them.

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“You have not grasped a complex unity if all you know about it is how it is one. You must also know how it…

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Some of you read with me 40 years ago a portion of Aristotle's Ethics, a selection of passages that describe his idea of happiness.…

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“The viewer of television, the listener to radio, the reader of magazines, is presented with a whole complex of elements—all the way from ingenious rhetoric to carefully selected data and statistics—to make it easy for him to “make up his own mind” with the minimum of difficulty and effort. But the packaging is often done so effectively that the viewer,…

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“we can learn only from our “betters.” We must know who they are and how to learn from them.”

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“Every book should be read no more slowly than it deserves, and no more quickly than you can read it with satisfaction and comprehension.”

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“Full ownership of a book only comes when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a…

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I've learned a lot about good and evil. They are not always what they appear to be.

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“you have to understand in order to disagree.”

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“It was beautiful. He thought he had never seen anything so beautiful in all his life; that, having seen it, he could die content, knowing that he would never see anything so beautiful again. He wished he could have seen it for longer. More, he wished he could have taken it apart, studied it all the way down to its…

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I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only increased my desire to be free, and set me to thinking of plans to gain my freedom. I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one. It is…

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