To spare oneself from grief at all cost can be achieved only at the price of a total detachment, which excludes the ability to experience happiness.
Erich Fromm
Successor site to the Philosophy of Happiness blog (http://philoshap.blogspot.com/) that supported PHIL 3160 at MTSU, 2011-2019. The course returns Fall 2025.
"Dogs don't dwell on the past or stress about the future. They don't expect the worst, become filled with regret, or exaggerate...
Total detachment would make a person a bad stoic (or a good Pyrrhonic skeptic), and not happy in what most of us would consider the preferred sense.
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