The question of happiness is as old as the human race. Mainstream philosophy has only ceased to ask it. However, striving for happiness is the principle occupation of man. Marcuse tells stories about the quest for happiness: about Job, about Hans in Luck; about happy pessimists Salomon, Seneca and Schopenhauer; about Thomas Morus, Robert Owen and others who believed in a better, happier society and about Epicurus and his epigones.