 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
 | John Stuart Mill - 1989 - 336 pages
...experience of the emotional insufficiency of narrow Utilitarianism, Mill wrote in the Autobiography: '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 not... | |
 | Shlomo Bidermann, Ben Ami Scharfstein - 1989 - 278 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... . Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life... are sufficient... | |
 | John Skorupski - 1989 - 431 pages
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 | Nicholas Rescher - 1990 - 224 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... | |
 | Regenia Gagnier - 1991 - 334 pages
...self-absorption with purpose similar to Webb's "we must live for others": "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... | |
 | Alfie Kohn - 2008 - 417 pages
...economical. (See my review of the book, "Altruism within Egoism.") 19. Mill wrote in his autobiography: "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 act or pursuit, followed not... | |
 | Mike W. Martin - 1994 - 248 pages
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