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John Stuart Mill Quotes

John Stuart Mill quotes about happy

English Philosopher May 20, 1806 – May 8, 1873

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Most persons have but a very moderate capacity of happiness. Expecting...in marriage a far greater degree of happiness than they commonly find, and knowing not that the fault is in their own scanty capability of happiness. John Stuart Mill
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence John Stuart Mill
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain. John Stuart Mill
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own happiness in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it. John Stuart Mill1806-1873 John Stuart Mill
There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill quote: "I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires,..."
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them. John Stuart Mill
Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my mental history John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill quote: "Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is..."
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. John Stuart Mill

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