The-Conquest-of-Happiness-by-Bertrand-Russell

his superior. It seems to them vulgar to enjoy food
because you are hungry or to enjoy life because it
offers a variety of interesting spectacles and
surprising experiences. From the height of their
disillusionment they look down upon those whom
they despise as simple souls. For my part I have no
sympathy with this outlook. All disenchantment is
to me a malady, which, it is true, certain
circumstances may render inevitable, but which
none the less, when it occurs, is to be cured as
soon as possible, not to be regarded as a higher
form of wisdom.
Suppose one man likes strawberries and another
does not; in what respect is the latter superior?
There is no abstract and impersonal proof either
that strawberries are good or that they are not
good. To the man who likes them they are good; to
the man who dislikes them they are not. But the
man who likes them has a pleasure which the other
does not have; to that extent his life is more
enjoyable and he is better adapted to the world in
which both must live. What is true in this trivial