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
| Graham Wallas - 1898 - 478 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... | |
| James Joseph Fox - 1899 - 368 pages
...that personal happiness is to be attained by not making it the end. " These 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 - 1900 - 622 pages
...to set a higher aim before one : happiness will come while aiming at the realisation of this end : " Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. . . . Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so ! " Added to this came new studies,... | |
| Estelle Davenport Adams - 1902 - 316 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 not... | |
| Simeon Singer - 1908 - 342 pages
...pass. So it would be truer still to say in the words of one of the greatest thinkers of our century that " Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some other object than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on some art or pursuit followed... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 508 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 not... | |
| John Stuart Mill - 1909 - 484 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 not... | |
| Henry Lewis - 1913 - 450 pages
...conduct," but he had learned that " this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy 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... | |
| Frederick William Roe, George Roy Elliott - 1913 - 512 pages
...end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who 25 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... | |
| Thomas Verner Moore - 1915 - 184 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 not... | |
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