Jeremy Bentham Quotes About Happiness

Quotes about: Happiness

• The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Happiness, Numbers, Truth Is

  A Fragment on Government preface (1776). Bentham said that he derived this formula from either Joseph Priestley or Cesare Beccaria; Beccaria is the more likely. If Priestley was the source, then Bentham was paraphrasing him because the phrase is not found in Priestley's writings. See Beccaria 1; Hutcheson 1

• Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Happiness, Dry, Pretty Things

  Jeremy Bentham (1838). “The Works of Jeremy Bentham, Now First Collected: Under the Superintendence of His Executor, John Bowring ...”, p.64

• Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--that the greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.

  Jeremy Bentham

  Happiness, Numbers, Foundation

  "The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham". p. 142,

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