 | Robert John Wardell - Philosophy - 1911 - 222 pages
...order than animal pleasures. He said, ' It is better to be a human being dis- „ p. 93. satisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.' sotia,t. 97. Therefore the way of ' wisdom ' is to cultivate the intellectual element in human nature.... | |
 | Charles Albert Dubray - Philosophy - 1912 - 662 pages
...determination depends both on the pleasurable object and on the faculty in which the feeling resides. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." (Utilitarianism, ch. II.) (6) It is not true that individual... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - Catholic Church - 1913 - 880 pages
...the judgment of those who have experience of different pleasures, some are preferable to others, that it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Then he slips from "preferable" to "higher", thus surreptitiously introducing a moral classification... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - Catholic Church - 1913 - 882 pages
...those who have experience of different pleasures, some are preferable to others, that it is bettor to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied,...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Then he slips from "preferable" to "higher", thus surreptitiously introducing a moral classification... | |
 | Charles George Herbermann - Catholic Church - 1913 - 878 pages
...experience of different pleasures, some are E referable to others, that it is better to be a human eing dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. Then he slips from "preferable" to "higher", thus surreptitiously introducing a moral classification... | |
 | Scotland - 1916 - 402 pages
...is typical of the specious logical slimness often found in the school. " It is better," says Mill, " to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied...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... | |
 | Walter Goodnow Everett - Ethics - 1918 - 464 pages
...whom this sense is strong are often less satisfied, they are nevertheless unwilling to part with it. "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than...than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of a different opinion, it is because they only know then- own side of the question. The other... | |
 | Mary Whiton Calkins - Ethics - 1918 - 258 pages
...happened the object of the moral will is something other than mere pleasure. To admit with Mill that "it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied" is to imply that the good is other than pleasure even though inclusive of it. We rightly conclude therefore... | |
 | Benjamin Ives Gilman - Art - 1918 - 472 pages
...perfect to a pig would excite in a man a vivid sense of imperfection. True also, that as Stuart Mill says "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." i But it would be a capital blunder to infer from this truth that discontent is always divine, even... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - Ethics - 1922 - 432 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...Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the tool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is~because they only know their own side of the question.... | |
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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. 
