A question on life and happiness?

Question:This is my question. Please try to answer with some semblance of reason. I have been asking this of many people lately and usually get the same reply.

What is more important to you personally:
The pursuit of happiness
or the pursuit of knowledge?

Would you rather seek the answers to the universe? Or live without knowing and be happy.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: This is my question. Please try to answer with some semblance of reason. I have been asking this of many people lately and usually get the same reply.

What is more important to you personally:
The pursuit of happiness
or the pursuit of knowledge?

Would you rather seek the answers to the universe? Or live without knowing and be happy.

"the question for life and happiness iswho would you like to get life and happiness?" Yeah because that makes sense. I don't care if I get thumbs downed or not.

Although these two options seem straight forward and obvious, one must actually define the two. What is happiness? What is knowledge? I'm sure that if you take the time to really think that through you will come out with some very surprising answers.

As for myself. I can not decide. As socrates said, "the unexamined life is not worth living." But what if you don't like what you find and are unable to change it?

the question for life and happiness iswho would you like to get life and happiness?

I would rather know. I would like to say that happiness would come from knowing. I just keep trying to know more and more. It never ends. I want to know what will happen to the Universe, and how it and we all began. I could not stand being happy and ignorant.

i personally don think that the person who wen in pursuit of happiness was ever happy....
but i ve seen ppl bein happy withotu seekin the answers n jus be content with wat they got...
and others are those who know wat can make them happy n do wat makes them happy...

happiness is in the heart of the content :)

The answers to the universe would make me happy. Maybe the journey to them is the most important part. How I discovered them is very stimulating...not just the answer. Wanting understand is not always "unhappiness." Maybe sometimes it is just uncomfortableness. For example...as a child I always wanted to know many things...now I did..The Ah-ha experience did not outweigh the journey to it. It was actually the other way around.

That is a very good question. Happy and dim or sad and knowing? I have pursued the truth and I think I got it by the tail. It did not make me happy, in fact the truth I found made me almost suicidal. It might seem like I'm wimping out but I would have to go for happy. There are plenty of great minds out there who have been chasing knowledge for millennium. I've done my bit for the planet now I'm ready for a bit of R & R. But a damn good question.

Man that's a toughie, but here goes.

During the Black Plague you had folks who didn't know what caused the illness, and for their ignorance they suffered and died.

Fast forward to today, we know there's stars and planets, but we also know there's gamma ray bursts, giant asteroids, and a failing magnetic field around the earth.

Knowledge without action brings misery and hopelessness, but knowing a problem, studying a problem, and fighting to find a solution brings relief.

So yes, I'd like to know the answers to the universe, so I can survive oncoming problems, and keep living.

On the other hand, you have the Cassandra complex. You know what's going to happen, and you can do nothing to stop it. Then ignorance is bliss in that situation.

But as for me personally, I want to know. I'm scared of the dark.

good question...
i've lived part of my life "fat, dumb, and happy", but then there are glimpses and doorways to knowledge that lead to growth, greater awareness, ... and more glimpses,... and more doorways. the unsettling thing about this journey is the uncertainty of it all, the Great Mystery.
Billy Shakespeare wrote: I could be bound in a nutshell and count myself king of an infinite space were it not that i have bad dreams

I think the secret is to be happy in the pursuit of knowledge. Revel in the mystery and embrace it in its fullness

The real happiness will come only through knowledge.But the
knowledge without dignity will destroy the universe.This is the
way what we have selected for our lives.

hmmm...
well the question for life and happiness is who would you like to get life and happiness?

For me, the pursuit of knowledge is how I am happy -- so, it is both the pursuit of knowledge and happiness.

Hi. This may not be the type of answer you are after, but please think about it.

The desire for God is written in the human heart because we are created by God and for God; and God never ceases to draw us to himself.Only in God will we find the truth and happiness we never stop searching for.

Put on your Darwin hat for a moment.

The point of life is NOT the pursuit of happiness.
The point of happiness is the pursuit of life.

Reread the above until you understand it.

The ONLY significance of happiness is that it makes us pursue a successful life.

The ONLY significance of knowledge is it helps us pursue a successful life.

You cannot pursue happiness. You can only pursue the things that cause happiness. Because Happiness is the feeling that causes pursuit.

I cannot choose between the pursuit of knowledge and the pursuit of happiness because there is no pursuit of happiness.

The pursuit of knowledge makes me happy, because knowledge gives me the power to live better.

If you stare at the universe and forget to live, you have missed the point.
But if you live, and do not learn, you will be replaced by those that do learn.

Well for me personally I'd rather live without knowing and be happy, however I believe you can know the answers to all the questions in the world and still be happy, as long as you like the answers and if you don't you can change them, after all no fact is actually a fact, it is more an opinion that lots of people agree with, making it acceptable as a truth in society

(this however is just my personal opinion)