Human Happiness Quotes - Page 4

• A sense of concern for others gives our lives meaning; it is the root of all human happiness

  Dalai Lama

  Love, Life, Family

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• He who made all men hath made the truths necessary to human happiness obvious to all. Our forefathers opened the Bible to all.

  Samuel Adams

  Men, Made, Obvious

  "One Nation Under God: A Factual History of America's Religious Heritage". Book by Leon G Stevens, 2013.

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• Books make up no small part of human happiness.

  Frederick The Great

  Happiness, Book, Humans

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• As we grow older and realize more clearly the limitations of human happiness, we come to see that the only real and abiding pleasure in life is to give pleasure to other people.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Real, People, Giving

  P. G. Wodehouse (2012). “Something New: Or, Something Fresh”, p.220, The Floating Press

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• If freedom is a requisite for human happiness, then all that’s necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

  B. F. Skinner

  Illusion, Humans, Ifs

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• Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

  Samuel Johnson

  Happiness, Animal, Equality

  Samuel Johnson, James Boswell (1818). “The table talk of Samuel Johnson”, p.120

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• Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Islands, Littles, Lessons

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• Money is human happiness in the abstract; he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

  Arthur Schopenhauer

  Happiness, Sad, Money

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• The enemy of human happiness as well as the cause of poverty and starvation is not the birth of children. It is the failure of people to do with the earth what God could teach them to do if only they would ask and then obey, for they are agents unto themselves.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Children, People, Enemy

  "The Family". The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Website, www.lds.org. October 1998.

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• Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

  Bertrand Russell

  Obstacles, Dogmatism, Humans

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• A kernel of truth lurks at the heart of religion, because spiritual experience, ethical behavior, and strong communities are essential for human happiness. And yet our religious traditions are intellectually defunct and politically ruinous. While spiritual experience is clearly a natural propensity of the human mind, we need not believe anything on insufficient evidence to actualize it.

  Sam Harris

  Spiritual, Religious, Strong

  Sam Harris (2005). “The End of Faith: Religion, Terror, and the Future of Reason”, p.221, W. W. Norton & Company

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• There are other ways of finding satisfaction, recipes for human happiness, enjoyment, dignified and meaningful, gratifying life, than increased consumption that increases production.

  Zygmunt Bauman

  Meaningful, Recipes, Way

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• Machines deprive us of two things which are certainly important ingredients of human happiness, namely, spontaneity and variety.

  Bertrand Russell

  Two, Important, Machines

  Bertrand Russell (2004). “Sceptical Essays”, p.67, Psychology Press

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• The task of organizing human happiness needs the active cooperation of man and woman: it cannot be relegated to one half of the world.

  Lillian Wald

  Happiness, Women, Tasks

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• Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu have.

  Josh Billings

  Happiness, Want, Humans

  Josh Billings (1874). “Josh Billings' Wit and Humor”, p.154

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• It would add much to human happiness, if an art could be taught of forgetting all of which the remembrance is at once useless and afflictive, that the mind might perform its functions without encumbrance, and the past might no longer encroach upon the present.

  Samuel Johnson

  Art, Memories, Past

  Samuel Johnson (2009). “Samuel Johnson: Selected Writings”, p.82, Harvard University Press

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• What an exciting super-tomorrow it will be! Americans are today making the greatest scientific developments in our history. That is a promise of new levels of employment, industrial activity and human happiness.

  Clarence Francis

  Happiness, Science, Historical

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• Certainly it is true that the constant striving for something better-the price of progress-adds to the total of human happiness. It stimulates industry by creating new wants. It multiplies opportunities for the employment of brain and brawn. And it bridges the gaps between peaks of prosperity and helps take up the slack during times of reaction.

  John Willys

  Happiness, Opportunity, Bridges

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• In the formation of such a government, it is not only the right, but the indispensable duty of every citizen to examine the principles of it, to compare them with the principles of other governments, with a constant eye to our particular situation and circumstances, and thus endeavor to foresee the future operations of our own system, and its effects upon human happiness. Convinced of this truth, I have no apology to offer for the following remarks, but an earnest desire to be useful to my country.

  Noah Webster

  Country, Eye, Apology

  Noah Webster (1787). “An Examination Into the Leading Principles of the Federal Constitution Proposed by the Late Convention Held at Philadelphia: With Answers to the Principal Objections that Have Been Raised Against the System”, p.6

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• Love and compassion ... are the ultimate source of human happiness, and the need for them lies at the very core of our being.

  Dalai Lama

  Lying, Compassion, Needs

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• All human happiness and misery take the form of action.

  Aristotle

  Action, Misery, Form

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• We need to get rid of hate, envy, jealousy, discord in ourselves, so we can reach a solution in terms of peace in order to feel that time has come for human happiness.

  Chico Xavier

  Hate, Order, Envy

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• We believe that human happiness requires freedom and that freedom requires limited government.

  Charles A. Murray

  Believe, Government, Humans

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• I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.

  Herodotus

  Long, Humans, Remains

  Herodotus (2008). “The Histories”, p.6, OUP Oxford

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• A system could not well have been devised more studiously hostile to human happiness than marriage.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Marriage, Wells, Humans

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1821). “Queen Mab, a philosophical poem, with notes. [reputed to have been given by the author to W. Francis. Wanting the title-leaf, dedication and part of the last leaf].”, p.110

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