Aristotle Quotes About Happiness

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  • Happiness is activity.

  • Happiness is essentially perfect; so that the happy man requires in addition the goods of the body, external goods and the gifts of fortune, in order that his activity may not be impeded through lack of them.

  • Happiness does not lie in amusement; it would be strange if one were to take trouble and suffer hardship all one's life in order to amuse oneself.

  • It is our actions and the soul's active exercise of its functions that we posit (as being Happiness).

    Aristotle, Harris Rackham (1962). “The Nicomachean ethics”
  • Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics
  • If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

    Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press
  • It must not be supposed that happiness will demand many or great possessions; for self-sufficiency does not depend on excessive abundance, nor does moral conduct, and it is possible to perform noble deeds even without being ruler of land and sea: one can do virtuous acts with quite moderate resources. This may be clearly observed in experience: private citizens do not seem to be less but more given to doing virtuous actions than princes and potentates. It is sufficient then if moderate resources are forthcoming; for a life of virtuous activity will be essentially a happy life.

  • Misfortune shows those who are not really friends.

    Aristotle, Aeterna Press (2015). “Eudemian Ethics”, p.69, Aeterna Press
  • Friendship is essentially a partnership.

  • Happiness is a sort of action.

  • The happy man . . . will be always or at least most often employed in doing and contemplating the things that are in conformity with virtue. And he will bear changes of fortunes most nobly, and with perfect propriety in every way.

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions
  • Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

  • The activity of God, which is transcendent in blessedness, is the activity of contemplation; and therefore among human activities that which is most akin to the divine activity of contemplation will be the greatest source of happiness.

    Aristotle (1934). “The Nicomachean ethics”
  • Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

  • If happiness, then, is activity expressing virtue, it is reasonable for it to express the supreme virtue, which will be the virtueof the best thing.

    Aristotle, Terence Irwin, Gail Fine (1995). “Aristotle: Selections”, p.440, Hackett Publishing
  • It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions
  • The Life of the intellect is the best and pleasantest for man, because the intellect more than anything else is the man. Thus it will be the happiest life as well.

    Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • He who hath many friends hath none.

    Socrates, Plato, Aristotle (1967). “Wit and Wisdom of Socrates, Plato, Aristotle: Being a Treasury of Thousands of Glorious, Inspiring and Imperishable Thoughts, Views and Observations of the Three Great Greek Philosophers, Classified Under about Four Hundred Subjects for Comparative Study”
  • Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions
  • A thing chosen always as an end and never as a means we call absolutely final. Now happiness above all else appears to be absolutely final in this sense, since we always choose it for its own sake and never as a means to something else.

    Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.11, Wordsworth Editions
  • Happiness depends upon ourselves.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • A good man may make the best even of poverty and disease, and the other ills of life; but he can only attain happiness under the opposite conditions

    Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3134, Delphi Classics
  • Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

  • What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.

    Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”
  • Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

  • Happiness is a thing honored and perfect. This seems to be borne out by the fact that it is a first principle or starting-point, since all other things that all men do are done for its sake; and that which is the first principle and cause of things good we agree to be something honorable and divine.

  • The activity of happiness must occupy an entire lifetime; for one swallow does not a summer make.

  • You can never learn anything that you did not already know

  • Happiness depends on ourselves.

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