Epicurus Happiness Quotes

#1. My title is intended to suggest that the community of scientists is organized in a way which resembles certain features of a body politic and works according to economic principles similar to those by which the production of material goods is regulated.

Michael Polanyi

#2. Happiness is man's greatest aim in life. Tranquility and rationality are the cornerstones of happiness.

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#3. The cry of the flesh bids us escape from hunger, thirst, and cold; for he who is free of these and expects to remain so might live in happiness even with Zeus.

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#4. I am a person who recognizes the fallacy of humans.

George W. Bush

#5. If you would enjoy real freedom, you must be the slave of Philosophy.

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#6. Reach for the stars and even if you miss you will land among the stars

Wendy Mass

#7. Of all the things that wisdom provides for the happiness of the whole man, by far the most important is the acquisition of friendship.

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#8. Of all the means to insure happiness throughout the whole life, by far the most important is the acquisition of friends.

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#9. He who says either that the time for philosophy has not yet come or that it has passed is like someone who says that the time for happiness has not yet come or that it has passed.

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#10. No pleasure is evil in itself; but the means by which certain pleasures
are gained bring pains many times greater than the pleasures.

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#11. Companionship was at the top of Epicurus's list of life's pleasures. He wrote, 'Of all the things that wisdom provides to help one live one's entire life in happiness, the greatest by far is the possession of friendship.

Daniel Klein

#12. 27. Of all the means which are procured by wisdom to ensure happiness throughout the whole of life, by far the most important is the acquisition of firends.

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#13. the authority of Jesus is ultimate, the

Lesslie Newbigin

#14. We must meditate on what brings happiness, since when it has, it has everything, and when he misses, we do everything to have it

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#15. There is no better investment of time and money than in the life of a child. They are the future ...

Alma Powell

#16. There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Patti Smith

#17. A lot of people have gotten into comedy because of certain influences in their lives or events that were painful, and I really have wracked my brain to figure it out. I pretty much have had a normal childhood. Maybe it was too normal.

Will Ferrell

#18. Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.

Aberjhani

#19. The refractory pupil of Socrates, Aristippus the Cyrene, who believed happiness to be the sum of particular pleasures and golden moments and not, as Epicurus, a prolonged intermediary state between ecstasy and pain.

Cyril Connolly

#20. What is to give light must endure burning. - Viktor E. Frankl

Glennon Doyle Melton

#21. Every day, I have a most embarrassing moment.

Steven Hill

#22. It is not the young man who should be considered fortunate but the old man who has lived well, because the young man in his prime wanders much by chance, vacillating in his beliefs, while the old man has docked in the harbor, having safeguarded his true happiness.

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#23. We have been born once and there can be no second birth. Fir all eternity we shall no longer be. But you, although you are not master of tomorrow, are postponing your happiness ...

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#24. Tranquil pleasure constitutes human beings' supreme good

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#25. Many friends are the key to happiness

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#26. Art and revolt will die only with the last man.

Albert Camus

#27. With the Epicureans it was never science for the sake of science but always science for the sake of human happiness.

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#28. If you wish to make Pythocles rich, do not add to his store of money, but subtract from his desires.

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#29. What if most of the technologies readers and cinemagoers are presented with in bestselling books and blockbuster movies are not science fiction, but science fact? What if they currently exist on the planet, but are suppressed from the masses?

James Morcan

#30. Each distinct cipher can be considered in terms of a general encrypting method, known as the algorithm, and a key, which specifies the exact details of a particular encryption.

Simon Singh

#31. We must, therefore, pursue the things that make for happiness, seeing that when happiness is present, we have everything; but when it is absent, we do everything to possess it.

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