Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed not as a means, but as itself an ideal end. Aiming... Cheerfulness As a Life Power - Page 54by Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 84 pagesLimited preview - About this book
| John Stuart Mill - Economists - 1873 - 344 pages
...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 other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
| Methodist Church - 1874 - 618 pages
..." this end is only to be attained by not making it the direct end. Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
| Royal Society of Edinburgh - Science - 1875 - 712 pages
...doubtful consistency, 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 to be cultivated... | |
| Spiritualism - 1876 - 404 pages
...fellows, shall it 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 - Business ethics - 1876 - 216 pages
...them steadily with a purpose which must sooner or later bring you to the haven you would be, 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... | |
| Literature - 1876 - 1072 pages
...(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 of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
| 1879 - 684 pages
...he now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. ' Those unly are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness ; on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind ; even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
| Rossiter Johnson - 1880 - 278 pages
...end of life," he now thought that this end was only to be attained by not making it the direct end. " Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, — on the happiness of others, on the improvement of mankind, even on some art or pursuit, followed... | |
| James Platt - Conduct of life - 1883 - 538 pages
...steadily with a 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... | |
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