Truth or Happiness?

[packbat]

Okay, I can't sleep for wondering how people would answer this, so...

Which do you value more: truth or happiness?

Answer any way you please (though I reserve the right to delete anything obscene).

Comments

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

In practice, though it shames me to say it, I would often prefer to persist in comfortable illusions than to dwell in truth at all costs. I think I value happiness over truth.

[feech.livejournal.com]

Opposite for me. Truth.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thanks for your input!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

You know, I didn't see that reading of my question. If I may ask: are you saying that you believe truth is more valuable than happiness, but that in practice you seek happiness rather than truth?

[chanlemur.livejournal.com]

Basically, yep.

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[packbat.livejournal.com]

Incidentally, a favorite quote of mine, that your answer made me think of:

Illusions commend themselves to us because they save us pain and allow us to enjoy pleasure instead. We must therefore accept it without complaint when they sometimes collide with a bit of reality against which they are dashed to pieces.
— Sigmund Freud