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Quote of Gaston Bachelard - To be happy, we must consider...


Biography - Gaston Bachelard:

French philosopher.
Born: 1884 - Died: 1962
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: France
France

To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.


To be happy, we must consider the happiness of another.



Translation

Translation

(French, German)



French
Pour être heureux, il faut penser au bonheur d’un autre.

German
Um glücklich zu sein, darf man das Glück des anderen nicht aus den Augen verlieren.




See also 

See also...



In the happiness of others I seek my own.

One of the secrets of life is that all that is really worth the doing is what we do for others.

Whoever is happy will make others happy too.

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion.

Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself.

To love is to will the good of the other.

To love is to find pleasure in the happiness of others.

When you are happy, there is still much to be done: to comfort others.

To make another happy, is to deserve to be happy one's self.

Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.

It is very true that we ought to think of the happiness of others; but it is not often enough said that the best thing we can do for those who love us is to be happy ourselves.

Happiest are the people who give most happiness to others.

My happiness is to increase other people's. To be happy myself I need the happiness of all.




Quotes for: happiness


Quotes

Quotes about happiness:


I have decided to be happy because it's good for my health.





Happiness is sometimes hidden in the unknown.





The world of the happy man is a different one from that of the unhappy man.





Happiness is not easily won; it is hard to find it in ourselves and impossible to find it elsewhere.





A happy life, therefore, is one which is in accordance with its own nature.





Nothing is ever finished ; only a little happiness is needed for everything to begin again.











Quotes for: others


Quotes

Quotes about others:


Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.





The usual pretext of those who make others unhappy is that they do it for their own good.





Let the other side be heard as well.
Seneca / 





The best means of learning to know oneself is seeking to understand others.





Give to every human being every right that you claim for yourself.





Article IV – Liberty consists of doing anything which does not harm others: thus, the exercise of the natural rights of each man has only those borders which assure other members of the society the enjoyment of these same rights. These borders can be determined only by the law.











Quotes

Gaston Bachelard also said...


Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.





The dream is stronger than experience.





Nothing proceeds from itself. Nothing is given. All is constructed.





If only these metaphysicians would give their attention to the lengthy discursive processes which lead science to build new intuitions.





The imagination is nothing other than the subject transported into things.





To imagine is to raise the real by a tone.












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