Nature has placed mankind under the government of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
To what shall the character of utility be ascribed, if not to that which is a source of pleasure? — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
By utility is meant that property is any object, whereby it tends to produce benefit, advantage, pleasure, good, or happiness(all this in… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Judges of elegance and taste consider themselves as benefactors to the human race, whilst they are really only the interrupters of their… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The law of England has established trial by judge and jury in the conviction that it is the mode best calculated to ascertain the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Prose is when all the lines except the last go on to the end. Poetry is when some of them fall short of it. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
O Logic: born gatekeeper to the Temple of Science, victim of capricious destiny: doomed hitherto to be the drudge of pedants: come to the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet. — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
In the mind of all, fiction, in the logical sense, has been the coin of necessity;—in that of poets of amusement—in that of the… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
“For the same sentiment of antipathy, if implicitly deferred to, may be, and very frequently is, productive of the very worst effects. Antipathy, therefore,… — Jeremy Bentham Copy Share Image
