During a lecture given by Jerry LEWIS on July 5, 1967 to students of the Royal College of Arts in London, the comedian answers a question about happiness (in English with French subtitles).
The philosopher André COMTE-SPONVILLE explains that happiness is what everyone hopes for. But if we hope to be happy, it is because we are not happy. He notes that we are still waiting for happiness for tomorrow, but that it would be more reasonable than hoping to live, to live today, rather than waiting for happiness after death, to live here and now.
Interview of the writer Jean Giono on happiness and especially the small ordinary everyday things like a shower, the wind in the trees, a feather that slides on a sheet of paper...
Raymond ARON shares his thoughts on happiness. He tells how the French defeat of 1940, the war, the genocide deeply and definitively marked him, making it almost impossible to use the word happiness.
Agnès VARDA speaks about what happiness is when she shoots her last film, entitled "Happiness". She does not agree with her husband Jacques Demy on the subject.
Interview of the young writer Philippe SOLLERS at 22 by Pierre DUMAYET on the occasion of the publication of his first novel "A curious solitude". He sums up the moral of his story and talks about happiness.
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