5 Quotes by John Stuart Mill about pain
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The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure, and the absence of pain; by unhappiness, pain, and the privation of pleasure.
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When people who are tolerably fortunate in their outward lotdo not find in life sufficient enjoyment to make it valuable to them, thecause generally is, caring for nobody but themselves
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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