Likewise, her husband the Sox fan. She's gone, and his attention has turned to his things.
There’s just no accounting for happiness,or the way it turns up like a prodigalwho comes back to the dust at your feethaving squandered a fortune far away... (continues)
William James, a poet among philosophers and an excellent philosopher of happiness, would have approved.
The really vital question for us all is, What is this world going to be? What is life eventually to make of itself? The center of gravity of philosophy must therefore alter its place. The earth of things, long thrown into shadow by the glories of the upper ether, must resume its rights. PragmatismHappiness on earth must be found on earth. Even those who invest themselves in dreams of heaven still do their dreaming here.
Such a simple point, but so elusive for so many.
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