"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind."
― John Stuart Mill
Topic(s):
Happiness
More From John Stuart Mill
- "What distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs."
- "Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained."
- "The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign."
More In Happiness
- "The older I get, the more I see that there really aren’t huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground."― Paula Cole
- "There is a heroism in crime as well as in virtue. Vice and infamy have their altars and their religion."― William Hazlitt
- "Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life – a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are."― Princess Diana