Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

Singing aloud leaves you with a sense of levity and contentedness.

Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire.

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.

For me, when I picture the person I want to end up with, I don’t think about what their career is, or what they look like. I picture the feeling I get when I’m with them.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

But at any rate, the point is that God is what nobody admits to being, and everybody really is.

Illusion is the first of all pleasures.

Think of all the beauty still left around you and be happy.

You are a child of the sun, you come from the sun, and that is something true with the Earth also… your relationship with the Earth is so deep, and the Earth is in you and this is something not very difficult, much less difficult then philosophy.

It is not God’s will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

I think that success is having fun.

Certainly the best works, and of greatest merit for the public, have proceeded from the unmarried, or childless men.

If you gain, you gain all. If you lose, you lose nothing. Wager then, without hesitation, that He exists.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

Premature certainty is the enemy of the truth.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Only a man’s character is the real criterion of worth.

I know of only one duty, and that is to love.

What if nothing exists and we’re all in somebody’s dream?

Being is the great explainer.

Man is not born to atheism. He is born to believe.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

It is possible for one never to transgress a single law and still be a bastard.

For my own part, I would rather excel in knowledge of the highest secrets of philosophy than in arms.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.

Physical comforts cannot subdue mental suffering, and if we look closely, we can see that those who have many possessions are not necessarily happy. In fact, being wealthy often brings even more anxiety.

As long as I am playing competitive football I am happy.

I used to wonder if it was God’s plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

All theory is against freedom of the will; all experience for it.

I call him free who is led solely by reason.

Man is a universe within himself.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

We run carelessly to the precipice, after we have put something before us to prevent us seeing it.

The soul is healed by being with children.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

Amour is the one human activity of any importance in which laughter and pleasure preponderate, if ever so slightly, over misery and pain.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.

The best thing to hold onto in life is each other.

We hear only those questions for which we are in a position to find answers.

He who looks the higher is the more highly distinguished, and turning over the great book of nature (which is the proper object of philosophy) is the way to elevate one’s gaze.

What is permissible is not always honorable.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

We must conceive of this whole universe as one commonwealth of which both gods and men are members.

Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.

One’s philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes… and the choices we make are ultimately our responsibility.

There are no eternal facts, as there are no absolute truths.

There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known.

I find that he is happiest of whom the world says least, good or bad.

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.

Exaggeration is truth that has lost its temper.

It is the privilege of the gods to want nothing, and of godlike men to want little.

I can control my destiny, but not my fate. Destiny means there are opportunities to turn right or left, but fate is a one-way street. I believe we all have the choice as to whether we fulfil our destiny, but our fate is sealed.

If you pursue good with labor, the labor passes away but the good remains; if you pursue evil with pleasure, the pleasure passes away and the evil remains.

The union of the Word and the Mind produces that mystery which is called Life… Learn deeply of the Mind and its mystery, for therein lies the secret of immortality.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

Those who commit injustice bear the greatest burden.