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- 001
„Questions of ultimate ends are not amenable to direct proof. Whatever can be proved to be good, must be so by being shown to be a means to something admitted to be good without proof.”
- 002
„pleasure, and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends; and that all desirable things are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.”
- 003
„a beast's pleasures do not satisfy a human being's conceptions of happiness.”
- 004
„some kinds of pleasure are more desirable and more valuable than others.”
- 005
„It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both sides.”
- 006
„Men lose their high aspirations as they lose their intellectual tastes, because they have not time or opportunity for indulging them; and they addict themselves to inferior pleasures, not because they deliberately prefer them, but because they are either the only ones to which they have access, or the only ones which they are any longer capable of enjoying.”
- 007
„When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lot do not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, the cause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves.”
- 008
„As between his own happiness and that of others, utilitarianism requires him to be as strictly impartial as a disinterested and benevolent spectator.”
- 009
„no known ethical standard decides an action to be good or bad because it is done by a good or a bad man”
- 010
„a right action does not necessarily indicate a virtuous character, and that actions which are blameable often proceed from qualities entitled to praise.”
- 011
„deviation from truth, does that much towards weakening the trustworthiness of human assertion”
- 012
„Society between equals can only exist on the understanding that the interests of all are to be regarded equally.”
- 013
„Will is the child of desire, and passes out of the dominion of its parent only to come under that of habit.”
- 014
„Duty is a thing which may be exacted from a person, as one exacts a debt.”
- 015
„we ought to shape our conduct by a rule which all rational beings might adopt with benefit to their collective interest.”
- 016
„The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of an universally stigmatized injustice and tyranny.”