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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers


Francis Hutcheson

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That action is best which procures the greatest happiness for the greatest numbers.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
FRANCIS HUTCHESON The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.
WILLIAM DEAN HOWELLS The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action
MADAME DE STAEL The greatest happiness is to transform one's feelings into action.
MADAME DE STAEL For the ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting i...
FRANCIS HUTCHESON Francis Webb is easily our greatest poet and one of the greatest poets in the world but he's hardly ...
ROBERT ADAMSON Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, ...
C.S. LEWIS Which of the religions of the world gives to its followers the greatest happiness? While it lasts, t...
C.S. LEWIS The greatest happiness comes from the greatest activity.
BOVEE The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.
JEREMY BENTHAM The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation
JEREMY BENTHAM The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of ri...
JEREMY BENTHAM The greatest happiness you can have is knowing that you do not necessarily require happiness.
WILLIAM SAROYAN The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
OSCAR AULIQ-ICE The single greatest cause of happiness is gratitude.
AULIQ-ICE The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.
JAMES MONROE I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand
I felt the earth...
BIL KEANE The greatest achievement is selflessness.
The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest...
ATISA Health is the greatest gift, contentment the greatest wealth, faithfulness the best relationship.
BUDDHA The greatest happiness of the greatest number. [Lat., La massima felicita divisa nel maggior numer...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.
ARTHUR SCHOPENHAUER The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOEVSKY The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.
FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY Action based on reason, action therefore which is only to be understood by reason, knows only one en...
LUDWIG VON MISES The greatest action is the grace to define sacred-self.
LAILAH GIFTY AKITA Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.
BERTRAND RUSSELL I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN Happiness,... even the smallest happiness, is like a step out of Time, and the greatest happiness is...
JOSEF PIEPER Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest events of history are those which affect the greatest number for the longest periods.
EZRA TAFT BENSON The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
SMILEY BLANTON The truth is that all of us attain the greatest success and happiness possible in this life whenever...
DR. SMILEY BLANTON To love and be loved is the greatest happiness of existence
SYDNEY SMITH The man who is born with a talent which he was meant to use finds his greatest happiness in using it...
JOHANN VON GOETHE Love is the greatest form of loyalty, one that places happiness of the beloved over the lover.
NALINI SINGH The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.
SUN TZU The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
VICTOR HUGO The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved; loved for ourselves, or rather, ...
UNKNOWN The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO We should seek the greatest value of our action.
STEPHEN HAWKING The greatest potential for control tends to exist at the point where action takes place.
LOIUS A. ALLEN Motherhood is the greatest thing and the hardest thing.
RICKI LAKE Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.
VICTOR HUGO The greatest gift you can ever give another person is your own happiness
ESTHER HICKS The greatest potential for control the ends to exist at the point where action takes place.
LOUIS A. ALLEN When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE Priestly was the first (unless it was Becarria) who taught my lips to pronounce this sacred truth--...
CESARE DI BONESANA BECCARIA It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
JEREMY BENTHAM He who depends on himself will attain the greatest happiness.
CHINESE PROVERBS A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants su...
PAUL J. MEYER A burning desire is the greatest motivator of every human action. The desire for success implants ''...
PAUL J. MEYER XinWey’s Doctrine states that the most essential morality of mankind is to create the greatest ...
BRANDON SANDERSON It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is simple pa...
Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
DR. LINUS PAULING The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, one someti...
JAMES MATTHEW BARRIE Family and friendships are two of the greatest facilitators of happiness.
JOHN C. MAXWELL It is not necessary for all men to be great in action. The greatest and sublimest power is often sim...
HORACE BUSHNELL The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energi...
WALTER ANNENBERG The happiness of one man and one woman is the greatest thing in all the world.
AGATHA CHRISTIE The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes ...
E. F. SCHUMACHER The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes ...
JAMES BARRIE The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometime...
SIR JAMES M. BARRIE Man's fear of ideas is probably the greatest dike holding back human knowledge and happiness.
MORRIS L. ERNST It is under the greatest adversity that there exists the greatest potential for doing good, both for...
DALAI LAMA XIV The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved -- loved for ourselves, or rather...
VICTOR HUGO A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.
WALT WHITMAN A great city is that which has the greatest men and women
WALT WHITMAN Health is the greatest possession. Contentment is the greatest treasure. Confidence is the greatest ...
LAO TZU Your greatest competitor is your best work.
LORRIN L. LEE When you look at your life the greatest happiness are family happinesses
DR. JOYCE BROTHERS The greatest Emotion is Love.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greates...
PABLO The greatest of fools is he who imposes on himself, and in greatest concern thinks certainly he kn...
SHAFTESBURY Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.
LINUS PAULING The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still ...
WALT WHITMAN Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of ...
PLATO The greatest poem is not that which is most skillfully constructed, but that in which there is the m...
L. SCHEFER All human happiness or misery takes the form of action; the end for which we live is a certain kind ...
ARISTOTLE The greatest part of our happiness depends on our dispositions, not our circumstances.
MARTHA WASHINGTON Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable, procures success to the weak, ...
GEORGE WASHINGTON You cannot become the best dancer by sitting and wishing. Take action, start dancing
SOTONYE ANGA Our country in general assumes that "the pursuit of happiness" really means "the pursuit of pleasure...
MADELEINE L'ENGLE The greatest happiness of life it the conviction that we are loved - loved for ourselves, or rather,...
VICTOR HUGO The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]
GEORGE HERBERT The greatest films are those which show how society shapes man. The greatest plays are those which s...
KENNETH TYNAN The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BARUCH (_BENEDICT DE) SPINOZA The greatest pride, or the greatest despondency, is the greatest ignorance of one's self.
BENEDICT SPINOZA The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy.
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The greatest firmness is the greatest mercy
HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Instead of the greatest happiness for the greatest number, one should demand, more modestly, the lea...
KARL R. POPPER Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us.
BORIS PASTERNAK Do you know which is the greatest epic till date?
HARI KUMAR K That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
ARISTOTLE The sacrifice ‘of’ self for the greater good is the greatest calling imaginable, and it is the b...
CRAIG D. LOUNSBROUGH Love is the greatest virtue of the heart.Sincerity is the greatest virtue of the mind.Determination ...
FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT Atoms for peace. Man is still the greatest miracle and the greatest problem on this earth.
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