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" I never, indeed, wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But I now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their... "
John Stuart Mill: Autobiography, Essay on Liberty - Page 92
by John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 468 pages
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The City-road Magazine, for ..., Volume 6

1876 - 616 pages
...direct end. Those only," he says, " I thought, are happy, who have their minds fixed on some subject other than their own happiness ; on the happiness...thus at something else, they find happiness by the way." The truth cannot be too deeply impressed upon us, that happiness will not bear being made the...
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Autobiography

John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 pages
...life. But I now thought, that this end was only to be attained by not makingit the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed...thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life (suck was now my theory) are sufficient to make it a. pleasant thing, when...
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The City-road Magazine, for ..., Volume 4

1874 - 618 pages
...came to the conclusion that " this end is only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed...thus at something else, they find happiness by the way."f That is, the one absolute end of life, according to the Utilitarian theory, will not bear being...
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The atonement, a correspondence between 'Forward' magazine, Edinburgh, 'J.W ...

Atonement - 1874 - 192 pages
...of life. But I now thought this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some other object than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on tha improvement of mankind,...
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Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Volume 8

Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875 - 712 pages
...thought that this was to be attained by not making it the direct end ; and that those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness — the philanthropic improvement of mankind, for instance. He found, too, that the emotions needed...
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The Contemporary Review, Volume 28

1876 - 1072 pages
...(happiness) was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy, I said, who have their minds fixed on some object other than...not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming at something else they find happiness by the way. . . . The only chance is to treat not happiness,...
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Business

James Platt - 1876 - 218 pages
...purpose which must sooner or later bring you to the haven you would be in, remember those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. The happiness of others, improvement of...
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American Spiritual Magazine, Volume 2

1876 - 404 pages
...come to you, pure, fresh and free, like God's sunlight. Says John Stuart Mill, " Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness." Again, the objector forgets that the gentle Jesus went not into the fashionable places of worship,...
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New Englander and Yale Review, Volume 36

Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 pages
...adding as a second his own internal culture, but leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life are sufficient...
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The New Englander, Volume 36

1877 - 824 pages
...as a second his own internal culture, hut leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only ire happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their o\vn happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life...
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