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there are important qualities which happen to be instrumentally useful, and therefore should be pursued on utilitarian grounds, but that doing so makes no sense, since they cannot be grasped by an effort of will, and the attempt to do so merely drives them further away.
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The greater the willfull effort to achieve happiness the less utilitarianly beneficial the efforts are.
The Master and His Emissary: The Divided Brain and the Making of the Western World
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