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Aristotle Quotes about Happiness

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Happiness is a state of activity.

Happiness is a state of activity.

Inspirational, Happiness, Being Happy

Aristotle (1998). “The Politics”, p.428, OUP Oxford

Happiness belongs to the self sufficient.

Inspirational, Happiness, Happy

You can never learn anything that you did not already know

Happiness, Knows

Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.

Inspirational, Life, Happiness

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

Inspirational, Happiness, Lying

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Happiness is something final and complete in itself, as being the aim and end of all practical activities whatever .... Happiness then we define as the active exercise of the mind in conformity with perfect goodness or virtue.

Happiness, Laughter, Exercise

Happiness depends on ourselves.

Happiness, Love You, Self Love

Happiness is activity.

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

Happiness is an expression of the soul in considered actions.

Happiness, Expression, Joy

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

Happiness may be defined as good fortune joined to virtue, or a independence, or as a life that is both agreeable and secure.

Happiness, Independence, May

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Inspirational, Happiness, Adventure

Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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.

Happiness, Men, Perfect

Happiness is the settling of the soul into its most appropriate spot.

Happiness, Beach, Ocean

Happiness is a certain activity of soul in conformity with perfect goodness

Happiness, Perfect, Soul

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.22, Wordsworth Editions

True happiness flows from the possession of wisdom and virtue and not from the possession of external goods.

Happiness, Flow, Virtue

Aristotle (2012). “Politics”, p.20, Courier Corporation

If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.

Happiness, Laughter, Joy

Aristotle, (2014). “Complete Works of Aristotle, Volume 2: The Revised Oxford Translation”, p.1860, Princeton University Press

No one praises happiness as one praises justice, but we call it a 'blessing,' deeming it something higher and more divine than things we praise.

Happiness, Blessing, Justice

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.21, Wordsworth Editions

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.

Happiness, Happy, Mean

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3126, Delphi Classics

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.

Happiness, Men, He Man

Aristotle (1955). “The Ethics of Aristotle: The Nicomachean Ethics”

It is the active exercise of our faculties in conformity with virtue that causes happiness, and the opposite activities its opposite.

Happiness, Exercise, Opposites

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.19, Wordsworth Editions

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, Men, Order

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

Happiness, Men, Opposites

Aristotle (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Aristotle (Illustrated)”, p.3134, Delphi Classics

Let us be well persuaded that everyone of us possesses happiness in proportion to his virtue and wisdom, and according as he acts in obedience to their suggestion.

Happiness, Suggestions, Virtue

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.

Happiness, Happy Life, Self

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

Happiness, Summer, Doe

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