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 - Página 54por Orison Swett Marden - 2005 - 84 páginasPré-visualização limitada - Acerca deste livro
| John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 344 páginas
...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... | |
| 1874 - 618 páginas
..." 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 - 1875 - 712 páginas
...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... | |
| 1876 - 404 páginas
...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 - 1876 - 216 páginas
...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... | |
| 1876 - 1072 páginas
...(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... | |
| Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight - 1877 - 828 páginas
...internal culture, but leaving happiness to take care of itself. " Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. Aiming thus at something else they find happiness by the way. The enjoyments of life are sufficient... | |
| 1879 - 684 páginas
...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 páginas
...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 - 1883 - 538 páginas
...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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