 It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other...  Fraser's Magazine for Town and Country - Page 370edited by - 1861Full view - About this book
 | Nathan Christ Schaeffer - Thought and thinking - 1900 - 360 pages
...they with theirs." "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied, better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig is of a different opinion, it is only because they know only their own side of the question. The other... | |
 | Frank Thilly - Ethics - 1900 - 368 pages
...with theirs. " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party... | |
 | Frederick Ryland - Ethics - 1902 - 260 pages
...quantitative. It ia not open to a consistent hedonist to say with Mill 1 that " it is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.5' We may, as systematic empirical hedonists, hold that " it is quite compatible with the... | |
 | Guillaume L. Duprat - Ethics, Evolutionary - 1903 - 422 pages
...make people happy by allowing each to act according to his own sweet will. 1 " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." Utilitarianism, p. M.-TR. 56. The Collective Interest. The sacrifice of individual to collective interest... | |
 | Warner Fite - Ethics - 1903 - 406 pages
...or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs. ... It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied." It will be seen that the force of Mill's argument lies in its appeal to common experience. Here it... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - 1904 - 316 pages
...satisfied ; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know...The other party to the comparison knows both sides." When pressed for a sanction of motive Mill appeals to the Aristotelian principle that the individual... | |
 | William De Witt Hyde - Christianity - 1904 - 308 pages
...but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections qualify. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better...than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question. The other party... | |
 | William Henry Maxwell - English language - 1907 - 328 pages
...been contented to take my dining tables, as anybody in their senses would have done. — Miss Austen. If the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion,...because they only know their own side of the question. — JS Mill. Strict compliance with the rule requires the use in such cases of both the masculine and... | |
 | Hastings Rashdall - Ethics - 1907 - 494 pages
...individual's actual desires, irrespective of their nature, whereas in fact we feel that it is better to be ' a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied ; better...to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied' (Utilitarianism, p. 14). contend, ' except when defending a thesis,' that those complaints which bring... | |
 | Pharmaceutical industry - 1908 - 492 pages
...Stuart Mill says: "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be a Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig is of a different opinion, it is because they only know their side of the question. The other party... | |
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