Happiness Quotes

Is it a destination or a practice? These quotes explore the most sought-after human experience.

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"We must learn to enjoy our symptom."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Happiness is the pursuit of unhappiness."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Happiness is not found in possessions but in meaningful connections with others."
Leopold Sédar Senghor
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"Happiness is the symptom of an unexamined life lulled by ideology."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Happiness is the rare moment of non-thinking."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Happiness is not a goal but a byproduct of meaningful creation."
Félix Guattari
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"Happiness is not a destination but a direction."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Happiness emerges from authentic self-expression."
Gilles Deleuze
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"Happiness is purchased at the price of consciousness."
Slavoj Žižek
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"The pursuit of happiness often blinds us to joy."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Happiness is not the goal, intensity is"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Intensity is not quantity but quality of experience"
Gilles Deleuze
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"Happiness is often the symptom of not understanding your situation."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Happiness is the biggest fraud sold in modern capitalism."
Slavoj Žižek
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"Happiness is not given; it must be fought for."
Max Horkheimer
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"Happiness depends on the transformation of society."
Max Horkheimer
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"Happiness is a utopian dream."
Max Horkheimer
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"Happiness emerges only when we cease to measure ourselves against others."
Giorgio Agamben
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"Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic."
Theodor Adorno
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"The culture industry offers compensation and distraction, not enlightenment."
Theodor Adorno
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"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it."
Hannah Arendt
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"The pursuit of happiness must remain always beyond our grasp."
Hannah Arendt
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"Happiness in mass society is the happiness of not thinking about it."
Max Horkheimer
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"The pursuit of happiness is a substitute for the demand for justice."
Max Horkheimer
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"Happiness is only authentic when it includes the recognition of suffering."
Theodor Adorno
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"The pretension to happiness under present conditions is itself obscene."
Theodor Adorno
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"Happiness is not a state to be achieved but a critical stance toward the present."
Theodor Adorno
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"The pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of meaning."
Isaiah Berlin
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"The culture industry produces false needs that substitute for genuine human desires."
Max Horkheimer
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"The culture industry exploits the need for genuine experience to reinforce conformity."
Max Horkheimer