Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 5

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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🗓️ 21 October 2025

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

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Dennis Prager tackles one of life’s most important—and misunderstood—pursuits: happiness. Drawing on philosophy, religion, and practical life experience, Dennis explores why so many people struggle to be happy, the common barriers that prevent it, and the choices we can make to live more fulfilling lives. Each lecture offers clear, actionable insights that will challenge assumptions, deepen understanding, and provide tools for cultivating lasting happiness.

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0:49.1	Let me say it once more then, okay, very quickly.
0:52.9	Apparently for a number of people, a significant number of people, guilt constitutes an obstacle
0:58.1	to happiness. They walk around with guilt.
1:02.2	This was brought to my attention by a man last term who had taken this, and I had not incorporated
1:07.1	it, and I realized that it's true for many people.
1:11.0	My argument with regard to guilt is as follows.
1:15.1	There are two types of guilt. One is worth having. One is not worth having.
1:20.4	And they, I believe, should be divided on the following basis.
1:28.1	Necessary guilt is guilt over actions which deliberately hurt another.
1:42.4	The operative words are deliberately and another.
1:52.0	It therefore disqualifies from appropriate guilt, and I will tell you in a moment why I believe we should have appropriate guilt, even in terms of happiness.
2:02.9	It disqualifies a very large area wherein people do have guilt.
2:08.9	Typical guilt is a parental guilt towards children.
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