Aristotle – Happiness Is Manifestly Something Final and Self-Sufficient
Happiness we assume to be in every way an end and complete. Happiness belongs to the class of things precious and final – Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics
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
When Death Is the Greatest Danger, One Hopes for Life
When death is the greatest danger, one hopes for life; but when one becomes acquainted with an even more dreadful danger, one hopes for death. So when the danger is so great that death has become one’s hope, despair is the disconsolateness of not being able to die. – Kierkegaard, Sickness Unto Death
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
Sartre – Existentialism
Despair and self focus are unfortunate foundations to most expressions of existentialism.