Quote of Jeremy Bentham - Nature has placed mankind under the...
Biography - Jeremy Bentham:
English philosopher and jurist. He regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism.
Born: 1748 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Born: 1748 - Died: 1832
Period:
19th century
18th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure.
Translation
(French, German)
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Quotes about nature:
Quotes about pleasure:
Quotes about human nature:
Humanity takes itself too seriously. It is the world's original sin. If the caveman had known how to laugh, History would have been different.
Humankind has become so much one family that we cannot ensure our own prosperity except by ensuring that of everyone else. If you wish to be happy yourself, you must resign yourself to seeing others also happy.
Why should the law refuse its protection to any sensitive being? The time will come when humanity will extend its mantle over everything which breathes.
Quotes for: pain
Perhaps I know best why it is man alone who laughs he alone suffers so deeply that he had to invent laughter.
To tolerate is to take upon oneself; a tolerance that comes into being on the backs of others is no longer tolerance. To tolerate the suffering of others, to tolerate an injustice of which we are not a victim or an atrocity that we are spared is not tolerance but selfishness, indifference, or worse.
I have only one passion, that for light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.
No longer shall I paint interiors with men reading and women knitting. I will paint living people who breathe and feel and suffer and love.
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