第1个回答 2016-04-27
It is a commonplace among moralists that you cannot get happiness by
pursuing it. This is only true if you pursue it unwisely. Gamblers at Monte
Carlo are pursuing money, and most of them lose it instead, but there are other
ways of pursuing money, which often succeed. So it is with happiness. If you
pursue it by means of drink, you are forgetting the hang-over. Epicurus pursued
it by living only in congenial society and eating only dry bread, supplemented
by a little cheese on feast days. His method proved successful in his case, but
he was a valetudinarian, and most people would need something more vigorous. For
most people, the pursuit of happiness, unless supplemented in various ways, is
too abstract and theoretical to be adequate as a personal rule of life. But I
think that whatever personal rule of life you may choose it should not, except
in rare and heroic cases, be incompatible with happiness.
Man is an animal, and his happiness depends on his physiology more than he
likes to think. This is a humble conclusion, but I cannot make myself disbelieve
it. Unhappy businessmen, I am convinced, would increase their happiness more by
walking six miles every day than by any conceivable change of philosophy.本回答被提问者采纳