Happiness is not something that you can find, acquire, or achieve directly. You have to get the conditions right and then wait.Jonathan Haidt
The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.Jonathan Haidt
We are all hypocrites, and the best way to deal with our own hypocrisy is to admit it, defend it, and arrange things so that it does us and others more good than harm.Jonathan Haidt
Love and work are to people what water and sunshine are to plants.Jonathan Haidt
Human beings are 90 percent chimp and 10 percent bee: We are are selfish primates who long to be a part of something larger and nobler than ourselves.Jonathan Haidt
We are not designed to find truth; we are designed to make social alliances.Jonathan Haidt
We live in a world that is inexplicably complex and evolving, a world of diversity and change, not a world of eternal, Platonic essences.Jonathan Haidt
The riders job is to serve the elephant. The rider is the spin doctor, not the president.Jonathan Haidt
The dogmas of the quiet past, are inadequate to the stormy present.Jonathan Haidt
The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.Jonathan Haidt
The bad news is that there are thousands of roots, and you don't have the time to trace them all back. The good news is that even though there are thousands of roots, they all feed into a few big stems.Jonathan Haidt