 Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming...  Proceedings of the Royal Society of Edinburgh - Page 258by Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875Full view - About this book
 | Edward Jenks - 1888 - 266 pages
...his Autobiography which corresponds most closely to the Sartor;— "Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. . . . The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life." S1 With... | |
 | Otto Pfleiderer - 1890 - 428 pages
...happiness 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 object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | Harald Høffding - 1891 - 386 pages
...happier. Stuart Mill had to pass through a crisis of this kind in his youth, and drew the conclusion that " those only are happy who have their minds fixed...some object other than their own happiness. .... The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it as the purpose of life."1 This... | |
 | 1891 - 448 pages
...of others, that life becomes truly worth living. " Those only are happy, I thought," so he writes, " who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind ; even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | Richard Holt Hutton - 1894 - 398 pages
...something else, and then you may get happiness in the rebound. " Those only are happy (I thought), who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | Charles Douglas - 1895 - 330 pages
...and distress, was the fatuity of the quest of personal happiness. " Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1897 - 416 pages
...Transcendentalist. The utilitarian morality does recognise in human beings the power of sacrificing who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | Graham Wallas - 1898 - 490 pages
...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 object other than their own happiness — on the happiness of others, on the improvement of .mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | John Henry Wilbrandt Stuckenberg - 1898 - 354 pages
...this end was only to he attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
 | Charles Richmond Henderson - 1898 - 442 pages
...said: — 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 object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not... | |
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