John Stuart Mill Quotes About Pain

Quotes about: Pain

• Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Pleasure, Ends

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

• 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

  Pain, Action, Absence

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.99, Hackett Publishing

• All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.

  John Stuart Mill

  Pain, Mean, Prevention

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.192, OUP Oxford

• Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it. They are crammed with mere facts, and with the opinions and phrases of other people, and these are accepted as a substitute for the power to form opinions of their own. And thus, the sons of eminent fathers, who have spared no pains in their education, so often grow up mere parroters of what they have learnt, incapable of using their minds except in the furrows traced for them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Father

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “Autobiography John Stuart Mill: Top Biography”, p.15, 谷月社

• Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Differences

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism”, p.148, Madison & Adams

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