Jonathan Haidt (1963) American psychologist
Source: The Happiness Hypothesis: Finding Modern Truth in Ancient Wisdom (2005), p. 25.
“Marcus Aurelius appoints personal character and conscience the ultimate refuge of happiness-seekers: the only place where dreams of happiness, doomed to die childless and intestate anywhere else, are not bound to be frustrated.”
Source: The Art of Life (2008), p. 35.
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Source: Truth and Reality (1936), p. 43
