Quote by Jeremy Bentham
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greates

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong. – Jeremy Bentham

Other quotes by Jeremy Bentham
Other Quotes from
Happiness
category

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing. – George A. Sheehan

Category:
Happiness

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it. – Theodor Adorno

Category:
Happiness

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him. – Max Planck

Category:
Happiness

He who never sacrificed a present to a future good or a personal to a general one can speak of happiness only as the blind do of colors. – Olympia Brown

Category:
Happiness

Random Quotes

If we can dispel the delusion that learning about computers should be an activity of fiddling with array indexes and worrying whether X is an integer or a real number, we can begin to focus on programming as a source of ideas. – Harold Abelson

Yoga takes us to the present moment, the only place where life exists. – Ellen Brenneman

Category:
Yoga

When you stop having dreams and ideals – well, you might as well stop altogether. – Marian Anderson

Category:
Dreams

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them. – James Michener

Category:
America