Happiness Quote by Eric Weiner

“Yet over the last few decades the tables have turned, and Bentham’s vision has been taken far more seriously. People increasingly believe that the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“At the end of the eighteenth century the British philosopher Jeremy Bentham declared that the supreme good is ‘the greatest happiness of the greatest…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“In a nutshell, Gross National Happiness seeks to measure a nation’s progress not by its balance sheet but rather by the happiness—or unhappiness—of its…

— Eric Weiner

“Universal happiness keeps the wheels steadily turning; truth and beauty can't. And, of course, whenever the masses seized political power, then it was happiness…

— Aldous Huxley

“True happiness … is found in fulfilling our higher nature, shaping our lives and our circumstances to reflect the way we are hardwired.”

— Charles W. Colson

I used to hold a unitary view, in which I proposed that only experienced happiness matters, and that life satisfaction is a fallible estimate…

— Daniel Kahneman

“The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend…

— John Stuart Mill

The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

— Jeremy Bentham

“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

“Happiness lies not in the position, descent, or any property, but, that happiness lies in religion, science, manners, and achieve my goals.”

— Rifhi Siddiq

“The highest happiness is the feeling of wellbeing which comes to one who is actively employed in doing what he was made to do;…

— Orison Swett Marden

“In a survey of more than 10,000 people from 48 countries, happiness was viewed as more important than success, intelligence, knowledge, maturity, wisdom, relationships,…

— Todd Kashdan