Jeremy Bentham
Philosopher
1748-02-15
Quotes by Jeremy Bentham
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
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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 priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,— and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
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...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
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Happiness is a very pretty thing to feel, but very dry to talk about.
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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 priest and the lawyer of mischievous immorality in the shape of mischievous ambition,— and too often both priest and lawyer have framed or made in part this instrument.
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Create all the happiness you are able to create; remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you, --will invite you to add something to the pleasure of others, --or to diminish something of their pains.
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...the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
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No power of government ought to be employed in the endeavor to establish any system or article of belief on the subject of religion.
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Without publicity, no good is permanent; under the auspices of publicity, no evil can continue.
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. . . in no instance has a system in regard to religion been ever established, but for the purpose, as well as with the effect of its being made an instrument of intimidation, corruption, and delusion, for the support of depredation and oppression in the hands of governments.
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The age we live in is a busy age in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
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Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
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The principle of asceticism never was, nor ever can be, consistently pursued by any living creature. Let but one tenth part of the inhabitants of the earth pursue it consistently, and in a day's time they will have turned it into a Hell.
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