Happiness Is Living Well, Though Its Nature Is in Dispute
HAPPINESS both the multitude and the refined few call it, and “living well” and “doing well” they conceive to be the same with “being happy
Spinoza – Scientifically Consider Human Actions and Desires
Thus the passions … follow from this same necessity and efficacy of nature; they answer to certain definite causes … possess certain properties as worthy of being known … the contemplation in itself affords us delight. I shall, therefore, treat of the nature and strength of the emotions according to the same method, as I employed […]
Definition of Attribute – Spinoza
By attribute, I mean that which the intellect perceives as constituting the essence of substance. Ethics by Benedict de Spinoza (1677)
Kierkegaard – My Depression is the Most Faithful Mistress
You can survive feelings like, “My depression is the most faithful mistress I have known – no wonder, then, that I return the love.” – Søren Kierkegaard, Either/Or
Fooled – Kierkegaard – Relation Between Truth and Belief
There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. Søren Kierkegaard, Thoughts of God
Kierkegaard – People Exchange Thought for Speech: Freedom
People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use. ― Søren Kierkegaard