What G. K. Chesterton thinks about happiness
English writer and Christian apologist (1874 to 1936); author of Orthodoxy.
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2 dated positions, c. 1905 to c. 1908, in their own words. Our reading of what G. K. Chesterton has said — not written or endorsed by them.
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Their wordsThe point is not that this world is too sad to love or too glad not to love; the point is that when you do love a thing, its gladness is a reason for loving it, and its sadness a reason for loving it more.
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Their wordsNow, the psychological discovery is merely this, that whereas it had been supposed that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by extending our ego to infinity, the truth is that the fullest possible enjoyment is to be found by reducing our ego to zero.