Aristotle on Happiness
Browse 5 quotations attributed to Aristotle, catalogued under happiness, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Aristotle, entry #158793: "And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
Attributed to Aristotle, entry #3847: "One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
5 Quotes by Aristotle on Happiness
"And happiness is thought to depend on leisure; for we are busy that we may have leisure, and make war that we may live in peace."
"One swallow does not make a summer,neither does one fine day; similarly one day or brief time of happiness does not make a person entirely happy."
"May not we then confidently pronounce that man happy who realizes complete goodness in action, and is adequately furnished with external goods? Or should we add, that he must also be destined"
"For some identify happiness with virtue, some with practical wisdom, others with a kind of philosophic wisdom, others with these, or one of these, accompanied by pleasure or not without pleasure;"
"After these matters we ought perhaps next to discuss pleasure. For it is thought to be most intimately connected with our human nature, which is the reason why in educating the young we steer them by the rudders of pleasure and pain; it is thought, too, that to enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing on virtue of character. For these things extend right through life, with a weight and power of their own in respect both to virtue and to the happy life, since men choose what is pleasant and avoid what is painful; and such things, it will be thought, we should least of all omit to discuss, especially since they admit of much dispute."