It is not true, it is a happy invention.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Something false can be a happy invention.
- In plain terms
- A fiction brings happiness even if untrue.
- What can you take from it?
- Happiness may justify fiction.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Is comfort worth untruth?
- What fictions make you happy?
Another view
It risks valuing comfort over reality.
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