The Southern Magazine, Том 14, Брой 6William Hand Browne Turnbull and Murdoch, 1874 |
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Страница 670 - Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat, not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life.
Страница 670 - I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
Страница 661 - ... no State shall coin money, emit bills of credit, or make anything but gold and silver coin a tender in payment of debts.
Страница 670 - Analytic habits may thus even strengthen the associations between causes and effects, means and ends, but tend altogether to weaken those which are, to speak familiarly, a mere matter of feeling.
Страница 670 - I never, indeed, wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But I now thought that 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 as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming thus at something else, they find happiness...
Страница 670 - They are therefore (I thought) favourable to prudence and clear-sightedness, but a perpetual worm at the root both of the passions and of the virtues ; and above all, fearfully undermine all desires, and all pleasures...
Страница 670 - ... he now thought 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 not as a means...
Страница 670 - ... all desires, and all pleasures, which are the effects of association, that is, according to the theory I held, all except the purely physical and organic ; of the entire insufficiency of which to make life desirable, no one had a stronger conviction than I had. These were the laws of human nature, by which, as it seemed to me, I had been brought to my present state. All those to whom I looked up were of opinion...
Страница 670 - All those to whom I looked up, were of opinion that the pleasure of sympathy with human beings, and the feelings which made the good of others, and especially of mankind on a large scale, the object of existence, 10 were the greatest and surest sources of happiness.
Страница 670 - ... exhaust themselves on that; and if otherwise fortunately circumstanced you will inhale happiness with the air you breathe, without dwelling on it or thinking about it, without either forestalling it in imagination, or putting it to flight by fatal questioning. This theory now became the basis of my philosophy of life. And I still hold to it as the best theory for all those who have but a moderate degree of sensibility and of capacity for enjoyment, that is, for the great majority of mankind.