12 of history's greatest philosophers reveal the secret to happiness

Wikimedia Commons A well-stocked Netflix queue can go a long way toward pure and utter happiness, but sometimes there's still something missing. For those moments, it can help to fall back on the wisdom of history's greatest thinkers: Kierkegaard, Socrates, Thoreau, and the Buddha. Here's what philosophers discovered about happiness long before orange became the new black. "There is no path to happiness: happiness is the path" -- Gautama Buddha, alive around 500 BC. Jonathan Choe / Flickr Simil...