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Statistics for Happiness - Quotation Quiz
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This quiz has been taken 5 times
(3 since last reset) - The average score is 14 of 14
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| The struggle itself towards the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy. | Albert Camus (The Myth of Sisyphus) | 100%
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| Happiness, then, is something final and self-sufficient and is the end of action | Aristotle (Nicomachean Ethics) | 100%
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| All happiness is of a negative rather than positive nature, and for this reason cannot give lasting satisfaction and gratification, but rather only ever a release from a pain or lack, which must be followed either by a new pain or by languor, empty yearning and boredom. | Arthur Schopenhauer (The World as Will) | 100%
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| The happy life is joy based on the truth | Augustine (Confessions) | 100%
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| A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy can live. | Bertrand Russell (The Conquest of Happiness) | 100%
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| If happiness is the highest good of rational nature and anything that can be taken away is not the highest good - since it is suppressed by what can’t be taken away - Fortune by her very mutability can’t hope to lead to happiness | Boethius (The Consolation of Philosophy) | 100%
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| There is great satisfaction in the knowledge of a life well spent and the memory of many things well done | Cicero | 100%
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| Crates said “These people account one another happy because one does the opposite of the other; but I account myself happy because I no longer play either part, being neither the seller nor a buyer" | Diogenes | 100%
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| There is one path alone that leads to happiness [...] renounce any claim to anything that lies outside the sphere of choice, to regard nothing as being your own, to surrender everything to fortune | Epictetus (Discourses, Fragments) | 100%
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| Why live years if happiness is in a day? | Fyodor Dostoyevsky (The Brothers Karamazov) | 100%
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| The purpose of the flow is to keep on flowing, not looking for a peak or utopia but staying in the flow. It is not a moving up but a continuous flowing; you move up to keep the flow going. There is no possible reason for climbing except the climbing itself; it is a self-communication. | Mahalyi Csikzentmihalyi | 100%
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| Happiness is the longing for repetition | Milan Kundera | 100%
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| We have proved that justice in itself is the best thing for the soul itself, and that the soul ought to do justice | Plato (The Republic) | 100%
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| How late it is to begin living only when one must stop! What foolish forgetfulness of morality to put off well-considered plans to one’s fifteenth and sixtieth year, and to want to begin life at a point that few have reached. | Seneca (Dialogues and Essays) | 100%
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