A person who has won an argument over another is usually very happy and sometimes delirious with joy. But after a while, he will experience an corresponding amount of pain in some other aspect of his mind. The reason is that human mind has a certain finite mass and volume. With a greater number of thoughts criss-crossing a given mental area, the result inevitably is an increased clash in the mind. The answer is yes.
Human existence has three aspects - physical, mental and spiritual.
While the first two are not amenable to progress, the third is. Increased happiness in that sphere is not neutralized by increased misery. While physical and intellectual activities deal with the limited, spirituality is concerned with the unlimited. Hence the goal in the spiritual arena is not the finite but the infinite. Therefore, the feeling of pleasure resulting from spiritual activity is not accompanied by pain, or happiness by misery.