Timeless Wisdom - The Problem of Happiness - Part 9
Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager
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🗓️ 25 November 2025
⏱️ 81 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager. |
| 0:04.2 | Here thousands of hours of Dennis's lectures, courses, and classic radio programs, |
| 0:08.7 | and to purchase Dennis Prager's Rational Bibles. |
| 0:11.4 | Go to Dennis Prager.com. |
| 0:16.2 | The reason for that is, number one, I have never said anything that I am about to say this semester publicly before. |
| 0:29.6 | This is absolutely brand new. |
| 0:33.6 | Not only that, I will never say it again. |
| 0:35.6 | This is it. I don't intend I'm teaching this again. |
| 0:41.6 | It's not only because of that. |
| 0:45.5 | I'll tell you some reasons. |
| 0:47.0 | This is going to be without question, and it's risky on my part. |
| 0:50.8 | I know that. |
| 0:53.9 | The most personal |
| 0:56.1 | that I've ever spoken publicly |
| 0:58.1 | because there is no way around it |
| 1:01.3 | in this particular thing. I cannot talk |
| 1:04.0 | about solving the problem of happiness |
| 1:08.3 | to the extent that the human can. |
| 1:10.4 | Always, always bear that in mind to the extent that the human can that always always bear that in mind to the extent that the human can that should always be in your mind whatever I use the term happy this entire course but there is no way I can do it without reference to my life I didn't get a B.A. or a PhD in happiness. They don't give them. They will one day, |
| 1:30.4 | I'm sure, but they don't now. I struggle with it like anybody, any one of you has struggled |
| 1:37.9 | with it. So I'm obviously not speaking from theory. I'm speaking from what I have experienced and what people have experienced to have related to me, their experiences, |
| 1:49.0 | which is the reason for my writing the book, Happiness is a serious problem. |
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