“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”
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Some inhabitants of a peaceful kingdom cannot tolerate the act of cruelty that underlies its happiness.
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Ursula K. Le Guin
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“Happiness is based on a just discrimination of what is necessary, what is neither necessary nor destructive, and what is destructive”
“They leave Omelas, they walk ahead into the darkness, and they do not come back. The place they go towards is a place even less imaginable to most of us than the city of happiness. I cannot...”
“Scientific thought is fed by the capacity to 'see' things differently than they have previously been seen.”
“The trouble is that we have a bad habit, encouraged by pedants and sophisticates, of considering happiness as something rather stupid. Only pain is intellectual, only evil interesting. This...”