| 1. | "
For Aristotle most people have an ethics of having, because most
equate happiness with the possession of tangible external goods, such as
pleasure, wealth, or honor (NE 1095a22-3)."
| Source: | SMITH, THOMAS W. "Aristotle on the Conditions for and Limits of the Common Good" American Political Science Review 93.3 Sept. 1 1999: 625
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| 2. | "... is a prize beyond all human wealth or honor or
physical pleasure." (5) Augustine's continual assurance that
although "we do not enjoy a present happiness" we can
"look forward to..."
| Source: | McMahon, Darrin M. "From the happiness of virtue to the virtue of happiness: 400 B.C.-A.D. 1780" Daedalus 133.2 Mar. 22 2004: 5-18
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| 3. | " I wanted to build this city on the imperishable
foundation of security and health, to assure its happiness and its
good fortune, to see to it that this city would endure."
| Source: | Burnett, D. Graham. "The founder of empires" American Scholar 73.4 Sept. 22 2004: 65-69
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| 4. | " Since pleasure and the happiness it
causes are the ultimate good for humans, the act that causes the
greatest pleasure or happiness for the greatest number of people is the
morally good act."
| Source: | Gilbert, Joseph T. "Sorrow and Guilt: An Ethical Analysis of Layoffs" SAM Advanced Management Journal 65.2 Mar. 22 2000: 4
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| 5. | "
It is one of the most seductive dogmas of our time that reducing
[life's] risks to produce longevity will also bring happiness."
| Source: | . "LONG LIFE = HAPPINESS" Pediatrics 105.2 Feb. 1 2000: 38
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| 6. | " It would be just
as good as the distant past in Holland before the War spoiled everything
and replaced pleasure with panic and happiness with dread."
| Source: | Wolf, Manfred. "The dance school" Literary Review v41.n4 June 22 1998: 489-498
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| 7. | " The distinction
between time and eternity carries along with it the distinctions between
the shadowy good and the summum bonum, between human reason and divine
reason, and between transitory pleasure and true happiness."
| Source: | Martin, Thomas L. "TIME AND ETERNITY IN TROILUS AND CRISEYDE" Renascence: Essays on Values in Literature 51.3 Mar. 22 1999: 167
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| 8. | " I was trying to capture the white noise of the man moving through
the city on his day off work.
"One of the great cliches of novel writing is that pleasure
and happiness don't make good subjects."
| Source: | Page, Benedicte. "A happy man in wartime" Bookseller .5156 Nov. 26 2004: 24-25
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| 9. | "
Hartog+ J. and Oosterbeek, H. (1988), 'Education, allocation
and earnings in the Netherlands; overschooling?', Economics of
Education Review, 7, 2, pp. 185-94. (1998), 'Health, wealth and
happiness: why pursue a higher education?', Economics of Education
Review,..."
| Source: | Battu, H.,Belfield, C.R.,Sloane, P.J. "HOW WELL CAN WE MEASURE GRADUATE OVER-EDUCATION AND ITS EFFECTS?" National Institute Economic Review Jan. 1 2000: 82
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| 10. | " Health, wealth and happiness are
byproducts.
"I can walk into a person's home and tell what's
going on inside their heads," Mrs. Conti Weklar says."
| Source: | Washington, Misti E. "Make room for self-improvement: Chinese art of feng shui takes clutter out of life" Washington Times Dec. 15 1998: 8
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| 11. | " Many people,
particularly those who were white, believed that they and their children
were "destined to live happily ever after...in a fairy tale of
health, wealth, and happiness" (Patterson, 1996, p. 311)."
| Source: | Gorin, Stephen H. "Generational Equity and Privatization: Myth and Reality" Health and Social Work 25.3 Aug. 1 2000: 219
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| 12. | "
She concluded, "Have lots of happiness, joy, love, health and
wealth!"
VISITOR FROM SLOVENIA
Prime Minister Janez Drnovsek of Slovenia will meet President
Clinton Nov. 4 when he pays a working visit to Washington.
..."
| Source: | Morrison, James. "EMBASSY ROW" Washington Times Oct. 22 1998: 15
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| 13. | "... and
even psychological health, this fact--that happiness by means of
material wealth is relative rather than absolute--is however not banal
but bad news."
| Source: | Alcott, Blake. "John Rae and Thorstein Veblen" Journal of Economic Issues 38.3 Sept. 1 2004: 765-787
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| 14. | " But where her other novels
hold marriage from or into the landowning, fortune-holding gentry as the
standard for success, Persuasion promotes different, more modern
manifestations of that happiness."
| Source: | . "A Thoroughly Modern Austen" Wilson Quarterly 23.4 Sept. 22 1999: 100
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| 15. | " Second+ and more important, it measures only one
relatively minor aspect of human development - monetary wealth - and
overlooks the contribution that longevity, health, education, political
and civil freedoms and other goods make to human well-being."
| Source: | Rogers, Ben. "DEVELOPMENT AS FREEDOM" New Statesman (1996) 128.4462 Nov. 15 1999: 56
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| 16. | " Smith opens The
Theory of Moral Sentiments with a discussion of "sympathy,"
which is the basis for man's "interest ... in the fortune of
others, and render[s] their happiness necessary to him, though he
derives nothing..."
| Source: | Northrop, Emily. "NORMATIVE FOUNDATIONS OF INTRODUCTORY ECONOMICS" American Economist 44.1 Mar. 22 2000: 53
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| 17. | " Watching a "small army of Arabs" working with
apparent pleasure on a barge, he notes their happiness at their labors
and compares them to blacks, remarking, in passages that make..."
| Source: | Levine, Robert S. "Road to Africa: Frederick Douglass's Rome" African American Review 34.2 June 22 2000: 217
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| 18. | "... with none, disposing to
jealousy and spiritual or intellectual pride toward none, each
individual adding by his mere presence to the pleasure of all others,
all helping to the greater happiness of each."
| Source: | Taylor, Dorceta E. "Central Park as a Model for Social Control: Urban Parks, Social Class and Leisure Behavior in Nineteenth-Century America" Journal of Leisure Research 31.4 Sept. 22 1999: 420
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| 19. | " Thrill, love, pleasure,
happiness, peace of mind, ... is the quality based on
sattva."
| Source: | SCHARFE, HARTMUT. "THE DOCTRINE OF THE THREE HUMORS IN TRADITIONAL INDIAN MEDICINE AND THE ALLEGED ANTIQUITY OF TAMIL SIDDHA MEDICINE" Journal of the American Oriental Society 119.4 Oct. 1 1999: 609
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| 20. | " The
individual is, in the words of Thorstein Veblen, "a lightening
calculator of pleasures and pains, who oscillates like a homogeneous
globule of desire of happiness" (Hunt 1979:303)."
| Source: | KLITGAARD, KENT. "Environmental Reforms in the United States: Policy and Political Implications, and Economic and Scientific Arguments" International Journal of Comparative Sociology 41.1 Feb. 1 2000: 49
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| 21. | "
As should be apparent, Weber's was an ascetic ideal--he told
his audiences that they should neither expect happiness nor value
pleasure for its own sake."
| Source: | Goldberg, John C.P. "Cardozo" Stanford Law Review 51.5 May 1 1999: 1419
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| 22. | " The snide outlook
that "Happiness" projects has its guilty pleasures, but it is
a vision as contemptuous of the depth of the human experience as the
naive 1950s TV shows that wanted us to believe sex doesn't exist."
| Source: | Sharrett, Christopher. "Suburban Nightmares and Pathological Parodies" USA Today (Magazine) 127.2644 Jan. 1 1999: 65-66
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| 23. | "... of
legislation," and his greatest happiness principle was itself
predicated on a precise arithmetical computation of the pleasure/pain
principle, which he claimed would provide the necessary scientific
foundation for social and..."
| Source: | Harrison, John R. "Dickens's Literary Architecture: Patterns of Ideas and Imagery in Hard Times" Papers on Language & Literature 36.2 Mar. 22 2000: 115
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| 24. | " It's fine for private happiness to take the form of free
music, but disturbing when that pleasure becomes defined as the essence
of freedom itself."
| Source: | KUTTNER, ROBERT. "O, Freedom" American Prospect 11.19 Aug. 28 2000: 4
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| 25. | " Her absorption in her own thoughts as she
works is akin to the abundant happiness enjoyed by the charming lady,
presumably Mine Chardin again, in his portrayal of the pleasures of
retirement (La Vie Priv[acute{e}]e, from the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm)."
| Source: | Bruce, Donald. "CHARDIN AT THE ROYAL ACADEMY" Contemporary Review 276.1612 May 1 2000: 257
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