Daniel Kahneman Quotes

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time.

I am weary of happiness, both as a word and as a concept.

I am happy and content because I think I am.

There's often a discussion about, 'Well, how do we know what happiness is? Is it real?' I've always argued that all of us know that there's a huge difference between how we feel when we feel happy and when we don't feel happy.

I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

Every moment of your life that is not a complete nightmare is happiness.

Happiness to me is simply not being unhappy.

I am cheerful. I don't know if I'm happy. There is a difference, you know.

Whenever you're feeling grateful, you are not feeling frustrated and angry and all those negative states that we go into. And that's a big benefit in and of itself.

Am I melancholy? I certainly have moments. I like to think there's a capacity for joy as well.

People don't notice whether it's winter or summer when they're happy.

No one is drawn to writing about being happy or feelings of joy.

Happiness is such a good state, it doesn't need to be creative. You're not creative from happiness, you're just happy. You're creative when you're miserable and depressed. You find the key to transform things. Happiness does not need to transform.

I think people really want to be happy.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

If you're happy, if you're feeling good, then nothing else matters.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know

Generally, I'm not sad. I mean, everyone has sad moments.

I was always a happy kid. I'd play the piano fairly well. I did all sorts of things fairly well. But who the hell wants to be happy all the time? It's a miserable state to be in permanently. Can you imagine how dreary that would be?

Good humor is the health of the soul, sadness is its poison.

Happiness as a human condition is something I never believed in. I think there are moments of happiness. I don't think there is a lasting happiness. I think this is unthinkable.

Happiness is a state of mind, you know. I don't think you are permanently happy. One is happy about certain things and not so happy about others.

My natural disposition is pretty joyful, but you know, I have bad days and sad moments like anybody else.

I don't want to become a jaded person, and I don't want to be complacent.

When happiness is actually in possession, the thought of evil can no more acquire the feeling of reality than the thought of good can gain reality when melancholy rules. To the man actively happy, from whatever cause, evil simply cannot then and there be believed in.