Happiness Quote by Sam Harris

The choice for mankind lies between freedom and happiness and for the great bulk of mankind, happiness is better.

— George Orwell

“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

It appears that the way people perceive the world is much more important to happiness than objective circumstances.

— Ed Diener

“Our culture has at its core the idea that more is better. Many of us design our lives around this belief. And yet the…

— Karen Ramsey

Economics spreads happiness.

— Tim Harford

“What we want is happiness, but if in pursuit of our own personal happiness we ignore the welfare of other sentient beings and only…

— Dalai Lama XIV

We need a different conception of happiness, more enduring and more genuine, not dependent on external circumstances.

— Richard Davidson

“We're all faced throughout our lives with agonizing decisions, moral choices. Some are on a grand scale, most of these choices are on lesser…

— Woody Allen

“The search for happiness is one of the few actions in which human beings absolutely agree upon, though they may not agree on what…

— Ivan Figueroa-Otero

“We need a revolution in academia, with every social science attempting to understand the causes of happiness.”

— Richard Layard

“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

“If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better.”

— Jane Austen