Eugine_Nier comments on Rationality Quotes April 2013 - LessWrong

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Comment author: Eugine_Nier 02 April 2013 05:48:12AM 8 points [-]

But I now thought that this end [one's happiness] was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness[....] Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness along the way[....] Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.

-- John Stuart Mill, autobiography

Comment author: blacktrance 09 April 2013 09:57:40AM 5 points [-]

For what it's worth, personal experience tells me otherwise.

Comment author: MixedNuts 14 April 2013 10:42:47PM 1 point [-]

I've found that thinking about something outside yourself (and thus not your own happiness) makes lots of people less depressed, and somewhat happy. However, the last sentence is clearly false, as many anecdotal reports of "I'm so happy!" show. Maybe it works that way for some people?

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