I
am more and more convinced that our happiness or
our unhappiness depends far more on the way we
meet the events of life than on the nature of
those events themselves.
-- Karl Wilhelm
Von Humboldt
1767-1835, German
Statesman, Philologist
Human happiness seems to consist in three
ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And
though these ingredients ought to be mixed in
different proportions, according to the
disposition of the person, yet no one ingredient
can be entirely wanting without destroying in
some measure the relish of the whole
composition. composition.
-- David Hume
1711-1776,
Scottish Philosopher, Historian
The great end of all human industry is the
attainment of happiness. For this were arts
invented, sciences cultivated, laws ordained,
and societies modeled, by the most profound
wisdom of patriots and legislators. Even the
lonely savage, who lies exposed to the
inclemency of the elements and the fury of wild
beasts, forgets not, for a moment, this grand
object of his being.
-- David Hume
1711-1776,
Scottish Philosopher, Historian
I
can sympathize with people's pains, but not with
their pleasures. There is something curiously
boring about somebody else's happiness.
-- Aldous Huxley
1894-1963,
British Author
