The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and StrowingsBrinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Philosophy
The Pursuit of Happiness: A Book of Studies and Strowings
Brinton, Daniel G. (Daniel Garrison)
Happiness
Fear, prevention of, 39;
definition of, 142, 145;
avoidance of, 145.
Fellowships, what they are, 228.
Fichte, quoted, 17, 77.
Ficinus, M., quoted, 141.
Fifine at the fair, 46.
Fine arts, pleasures from, 151.
Fixed opinions, folly of, 187.
Fontenelle, quoted, 78.
Food-taking, as a rite, 134.
Fox, George, 32, 232.
Foster, John, quoted, 189.
Friendship explained, 232;
rules for, 233;
of men and women, 235.
Frivolity of old men, 80;
its usefulness, 225.
Fuller, Thomas, quoted, 115, 131.
Furniture, its place in life, 83.
Gambler, the guileless, 97.
Gamblers, superstitions of, 98;
true spirit of, 106.
Games, pleasures of, 153.
Gibbon, quoted, 27, 128.
Goethe, quoted, 34, 102, 107, 151, 220, 276.
Good taste, what it is, 152.
Good and evil, how to distinguish, 213.
Government, the use of, 198;
theories of, 199;
aim of, 204.
Grief, inconsistencies of, 252.
Habit, its tyrannical power, 48.
Halevy, quoted, 129.
Hamilton, Sir William, 57.
Happiness, as the aim of life, 9;
definitions of, 15, 77, 105, 109, 167, 168;
the distribution of, 26;
in relation to health, 65;
in relation to beauty, 69;
washwoman’s ideal of, 109;
and success, 116;
how related to riches, 125;
complete, not attainable, 143;
whence derived, 195;
two theories of, 196;
independent of morality, 206.
Hatred, as an emotion, 148.
Hazlitt, Wm., quoted, 113.
Health in relation to happiness, 65.
Hearing, the pleasures of, 137.
Hedonism, 11.
Herbert of Cherbury, quoted, 148.
Herder, quoted, 88, 110.
Heredity, the laws of, 59.
Hobbes, quoted, 162.
Holland, Sir Henry, 161.
Home, what makes a, 83;
the love of, 87.
Homesickness, 87.
Hope, definition of, 142, 145;
in disease, 73.
House, building a, 85.
Humanity, the ideal of, 170.
Humboldt, W. Von, quoted, 34, 235, 244.
Hume, quoted, 16, 26.
Hunt, L., quoted, 268.
Hygiene, science of, 65.
Ibsen’s drama, 63.
Ideal and real, relations of, 53;
attraction of, 67;
aim of art, 176;
ideal truth, 177;
of humanity, 170.
Ignorance, the bliss of, 56.
Imagination, the, its cultivation, 149.
Immortality of the soul, 174, 179.
Incivility, how to be received, 257.
Incompatible desires, 144, 250.
Inconsistencies of grief, 252.
Individual, the true aim of, 183.
Individuality, cultivation of, 181;
traits of, 194.
Ingratitude, how to regard, 258.
Insincerity has no limit, 217.
Insurance, value of, 101.
Intellect, pleasures derived from, 156;
why cold, 167.
Intense application, danger of, 113.
Johnson, Dr., quoted, 22, 26, 46, 65, 110, 184, 234, 241.
Joy, a cry of nature, 20;
and sorrow are twins, 277.
Kant, quoted, 16, 25, 141, 195, 206.
Knowledge, the most useful, 40;
its relation to liberty, 199.
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