"The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation."

Happiness, Legislation, Morals

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

Lailah Gifty Akita, Ghanaian Author

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"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

Victor Hugo, French Author

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"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Fun, Joy, Instinct, Emotion

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

Gustave Flaubert, French Novelist

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"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

William James, American Philosopher

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"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

Sharon Salzberg, American Author

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"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

Happiness, Joy, Love, Emotion

"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

Leo Tolstoy, Russian Novelist

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"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."

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"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

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"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

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"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."

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"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

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"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."

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"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."

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"The righteous shall rejoice."

"Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved."

"Fun is closely related to Joy -- a sort of emotional froth arising from the play of instinct."

"Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure."

"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."

"Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action."

"Seeking happiness is not the problem. The problem is that we often do not know where and how to find genuine happiness and so make the mistakes that cause suffering for ourselves & others."

"[Death] is a safety-device because, once Man has fallen, natural immortality would be the one utterly hopeless destiny for him."

"A sum can be put right: but only by going back till you find the error and working it afresh from that point, never by simply going on."

"Man is created for happiness, that happiness lies in himself, in the satisfaction of simple human needs; and that all unhappiness is due, not to privation but to superfluity."

Explore more quotes by Jeremy Bentham

"Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government."

"No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion."

"The power of the lawyer is in the uncertainty of the law."

"Every law is an infraction of liberty."

"Lawyers are the only persons in whom ignorance of the law is not punished."

"The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection."

"It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong."

"The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong."

"The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell."

"He who thinks and thinks for himself, will always have a claim to thanks; it is no matter whether it be right or wrong, so as it be explicit. If it is right, it will serve as a guide to direct; if wrong, as a beacon to warn."