Mary Midgley Quote

Neither ecological nor social engineering will lead us to a conflict-free, simple path... Utilitarians and others who simply advise us to be happy are unhelpful, because we almost always have to make a choice either between different kinds of happiness—different things to be happy _about_—or between these and other things we want, which nothing to do with happiness.

Beast and Man: The Roots of Human Nature (1979).