Sentences with phrase «much human happiness»
That pathway — which is our current one — can only lead to a hellishly hot future, probably with massive structural inequalities (as the powerful control the increasingly limited environmental resources such as water and sources of energy) and not much human happiness.
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But much that pretends to be human progress and against which «conservationists» protest may well be proscribed by the maximal happiness principle.
The problem is much more radical: the modern West's rejection of objective morality, grounded in divine wisdom and intrinsic to human nature, the knowing and following of which is the only path to individual happiness and a just social order.
After the necessities for survival are met, healthy relationships contribute much more to human happiness than does the increase of consumption of goods and services.
Our human happiness is found there, at a level much deeper than in a superficial «pleasant feeling.»
It's tougher in some ways to live well — to find humanly worthy happiness — in our time, when so much human effort is directed toward thinking through the «how» (technology) and so little directed toward thinking about the «who» and the «why» (who we are and what we're supposed to do).
The heart of all real religions is an affirmation that human life on this planet is only part of something very much greater; that «human values» are determined by an authority higher than human beings themselves; and that man neither finds happiness nor discovers his true self until his worship, his loyalty and his love are given to Someone infinitely greater than any man or group of men.
I feel like weekends exist just to give us humans time to loll about and soak in as much happiness as possible before going back to the grind.
Dr. Boardman reminded us the easiest way to cultivate happiness in our own lives is through others: «It's so tempting in our daily lives to retreat into me and my... to be human is to connect to a fabric much larger than ourselves... the longest studies on happiness show it's about showing up; it's being there for your friends.»
«We've known for some time that social relationships are the best predictor of human happiness, and this paper shows that the effect is much more powerful than anyone realized,» says Daniel Gilbert, PhD, a professor of psychology at Harvard University.
There is so much beauty in human resiliency, and it is this attribute that makes it unnecessary for us to continue to dwell in past trauma, and gives us permission to find happiness.