Categoria: Enéada I, 5 (36)

Does Happiness Increase With Time? HAPPINESS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH DURATION OF TIME. 1. Does happiness increase with duration of time? No: for the feeling of happiness exists only in the present. The memory of past happiness could not add anything to happiness itself. Happiness is not a word, but a state of soul.…

Tractate 36 First Ennead. Fifth tractate. Happiness and extension of time. 1. Is it possible to think that Happiness increases with Time, Happiness which is always taken as a present thing? The memory of former felicity may surely be ruled out of count, for Happiness is not a thing of words, but a definite condition…