As attractive as it is, the idea that nature can exist beyond our dangerous 'instinct for happiness' is never the whole story.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.
One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.
Happiness must be cultivated. It is like character. It is not a thing to be safely let alone for a moment, or it will run to weeds.
The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
U.K. psychologist Daniel Nettle thinks of happiness as a carrot on a stick, designed by evolution to show the right way, and also designed so that we will never permanently reach it. We likely would just sit around and eat sweet and fatty foods all day, and that is simply not in the interest of evolution.
Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.
A thing of beauty is a joy forever: its loveliness increases; it will never pass into nothingness.
Beauty and seduction, I believe, is nature's tool for survival, because we will protect what we fall in love with.