 | James Sully - 1877 - 532 pages
...abiding feeling of satisfaction. ' Happiness/ says JS Mill, ' is not the same thing as contentment. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.' Yet, in the same essay, Mill distinctly talks about ' a satisfied life ' where a moderate share of... | |
 | English literature - 1877 - 532 pages
...all human beings possess in one form or another," and so on. He concludes the paragraph by saying : "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied : it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Socialism - 1879 - 288 pages
...will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections...the fool, or the pig» is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party to the comparison knows both... | |
 | Thomas Edward Cliffe Leslie - Economics - 1879 - 510 pages
...they are with theirs. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; bettter to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And, if the fool and the pig are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.... | |
 | Georg Brandes - 1880 - 410 pages
...savage is not the highest happiness. John Stuart Mill says, in his "Theory of Utilitarianism : " " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." And he is right; greater sensitiveness, even to pain, is not too dear a price to pay for increase of the... | |
 | Choice literature - 1880 - 1170 pages
...responsibility of pointing the eye down the scale. And if, as Mr. .1. S. ЛП11 most admirably said, " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied" ('' Utilitarianism, "p. 14), we need something higher than " a surplus of the agreeable" as the formula... | |
 | Samue Harris (D.D.) - Theism - 1892 - 606 pages
...himself a Utilitarian, is obliged to confess, " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than to be a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." f This is the admission that other elements than happiness enter into the idea of the good. Mr. Mulford... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Ethics - 1885 - 336 pages
...only end, and satisfaction is simply another name for it, then it is plainly incorrect to say that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." l As has been urged from the evolutionist point of view, " there is no common measure of happiness... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Ethics - 1885 - 348 pages
...only end, and satisfaction is simply another name for it, then it is plainly incorrect to say that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied."1 As has been urged from the evolutionist point of view, " there is no common measure of... | |
 | William Ritchie Sorley - Ethics - 1885 - 336 pages
...only end, and satisfaction is simply another name for it, then it is plainly incorrect to say that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied of which than a fool satisfied." 1 As has been urged from the evolutionist point of view, " there is... | |
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. 
