Julian Baggini Quotes

It's a great game - the pursuit of happiness.

Happiness is the most important thing.

Being happy is of the utmost importance. Success in anything is through happiness.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Gratification and happiness are becoming important measures of our quality of life.

The goal isn't to be successful; it's to be happy. And so it doesn't matter if I'm doing things in New York or teaching high school or I drop it altogether and sell coffee. The goal is to be happy, and people and relationships are what makes you happy.

I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.

That should be the measure of success for everyone. It's not money, it's not fame, it's not celebrity; my index of success is happiness.

I would be the first to say that while a lack of money can cause misery, money doesn't buy you happiness.

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

If by happiness you mean instead an ordinary contentment, then yes - I'm fairly contented. Not satisfied - contented.

Success doesn't necessarily mean happiness.

Happiness. We're tearing our hair out to try to find a definition of it, for heaven's sake. Is it joy? People will tell you that it isn't, that joy is a fleeting emotion, a moment of happiness, which is always welcome, mind you. And then what about pleasure, huh? Oh, yes, that's easy, everybody knows what that is, but there again it doesn't last. But is happiness not the sum total of lots of small joys and pleasures, huh?

The whole purpose of life is to make yourself happy.

Any fool can be happy. What I'm interested in is satisfaction. There's got to be more to life than just being happy. You've got to be fulfilled. You've got to be satisfied; philosophically satisfied is what I mean.

I want to live a full life - period.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Happiness is a how; not a what. A talent, not an object.

The ability to take pleasure in one's life is a skill and is a kind of intelligence. So intelligence is a hard thing to evaluate and it manifests itself in so many different ways. I do think the ability to know how to live a life and not be miserable is a sign of that.

A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

If you can do what you do best and be happy, you're further along in life than most people.

I think people really want to be happy.

Well, the attractive thing about the subject of happiness is that it is notoriously difficult to write.

Happiness has a bad rap. People say it shouldn't be your goal in life. Oh, yes it should.