John Stuart Mill
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Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal; worked for the East India Company for almost thirty-five years; elected Member of Parliament for…
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Happiness is the test of conduct and the end of life, but it can only be reached by not making it the direct aim (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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Asking yourself whether you are happy stops you being so; the only chance is to aim at some end outside happiness (opens korrents.com)
“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.”
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The legal subordination of one sex to the other is wrong and a chief hindrance to human improvement, and should give way to perfect equality (opens korrents.com)
“That the principle which regulates the existing social relations between the two sexes—the legal subordination of one sex to the other—is wrong in itself, and now one of the chief hindrances to human improvement; and…”
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Happiness is the test of conduct and the end of life, but it can only be reached by not making it the direct aim (opens korrents.com)