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“Happiness depends upon ourselves.”

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Book:Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

Source: Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics

“Nature is trying very hard to make us succeed, but nature does not depend on us. We are not the only experiment.”

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Author:R. Buckminster Fuller

“The richness and variety, and indeed the advance, of our culture depend upon the continuation of this conflict [between conservatives and radicals], which is deeply rooted in human nature.”

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Author:Paul Johnson

“Conservatism vests in and depends on the widespread, informed understanding of human nature, self-governance and the First Principle of Progress: free people interacting in free markets produce the greatest good for the greatest number always, but only, when tethered to virtue and morality.”

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Author:Mary Matalin

“Many artists and scholars have pointed out that ultimately art depends on human nature.”

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Author:Steven Pinker

“Happiness does not depend on outward things, but on the way we see them.”

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Author:Leo Tolstoy

“Human nature is so constituted that the propensity for evil is always intensified by external circumstances, and the morality of the individual depends much more on the conditions of his existence and the environment in which he lives than on his own will.”

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Author:Mikhail Bakunin

“Both happiness and unhappiness depend on perception”

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Author:Marcus Aurelius

“What is that we human beings ultimately depend on? We depend on our words. We are suspended in language. Our task is to communicate experience and ideas to others.”

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Author:Niels Bohr

“Human beings are not intrinsically selfish, which isolates us from others. We are essentially social animals who depend on others to meet our needs. We achieve happiness, prosperity and progress through social interaction. Therefore, having a kind and helpful attitude contributes to our own and others' happiness.”

“It is not human nature which can assign the variable limits necessary to our needs. They are thus unlimited so far as they depend on the individual alone. Irrespective of any external regulatory force, our capacity for feeling is in itself an insatiable and bottomless abyss.”

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Book:Suicide

Source: Suicide