 | 1876 - 616 หน้า
...regards happiness as the true end of life, was compelled to arrive at the conclusion, that " this end is only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only," he says, " I thought, are happy, who have their minds fixed on some subject other than their own happiness... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 หน้า
...anti-self-consciousness theory of Carlyle. I never, indeed, wavered lathe conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But...thought, that this end was only to be attained by not makingit the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object... | |
 | Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1874 - 524 หน้า
...practice, while holding to it in theory. " I never wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct, and the end of life. But...only to be attained by not making it the direct end." The cure was not perfect nor final. " The cloud gradually drew off, and I again enjoyed life; and though... | |
 | Atonement - 1874 - 192 หน้า
...is worthy of notice. He says : " I never .... wavered in the conviction that happiness is the test of all rules of conduct and the end of life. But I now thought this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought)... | |
 | Royal Society of Edinburgh - 1875 - 712 หน้า
...thought that this was to be attained by not making it the direct end ; and that those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness — the philanthropic improvement of mankind, for instance. He found, too, that the emotions needed... | |
 | 1876 - 1072 หน้า
...agent, but he determined that men must act as if it were not. " I now thought that this end (happiness) was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy, I said, who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness — on the happiness... | |
 | 1876 - 404 หน้า
...come to you, pure, fresh and free, like God's sunlight. Says John Stuart Mill, " Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness." Again, the objector forgets that the gentle Jesus went not into the fashionable places of worship,... | |
 | James Platt - 1876 - 218 หน้า
...purpose which must sooner or later bring you to the haven you would be in, remember those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness : aiming at something else, they find happiness by the way. The happiness of others, improvement of... | |
 | Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 หน้า
...others, adding as a second his own internal culture, but leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds...fixed on some object other than their own happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life are sufficient... | |
 | 1877 - 824 หน้า
...as a second his own internal culture, hut leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only ire happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their o\vn happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life... | |
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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. 
