Quotes about Animal Happiness

I am too easily contented with a slight and almost animal happiness. My happiness is a good deal like that of the woodchucks. Votes: 3

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure. Votes: 1

It is in his knowledge that man has found his greatness and his happiness, the high superiority which he holds over the other animals who inhabit the earth with him, and consequently no ignorance is probably without loss to him, no error without evil. Votes: 1

I have an odd theory on happiness, and it bothers people. My general theory is that happiness is a reward for an animal doing what it should be doing. So if a horse runs, it feels happy. Or if you are too thin, you can't be happy, because evolution wants you to be tense and anxious, trying to wake up in the morning looking for food. Votes: 1

Basically, a human being is a social animal. So, if you create some short moment of happiness for people, you get deep satisfaction. Votes: 0

Perhaps no philosopher is more correct than the cynic. The happiness of the animal, that thorough cynic, is the living proof of cynicism. Votes: 0

Animals we are, and animals we remain, and the path to our regeneration and happiness, if there be such a path, lies through our animal nature. Votes: 0

Happiness is a carnival game. It's never as easy as it looks, but the dumb ones always seem to be walking around with a big stuffed animal. Votes: 0

Man is the only religious animal. In the Holy task of smoothing his brother's path to the happiness of heaven, he has turned the globe into a graveyard. Votes: 0