 | 1871 - 868 str.
...contends for, which also he enforces by means of men's inward feelings. He uses the emphatic language, ' It is BETTER to be a human being dissatisfied than...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied' (p. 14). Thus to be satisfied (which is identical with Epicurean happiness) is not во good as to... | |
 | 1871 - 850 str.
...also he enforces by means of men's inward feelings. He uses the emphatic language, ' It is BETTEI: to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied;...to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied' (p. 14). Thus to be satisfied (which is identical with Epicurean happiness) is not so good as to be... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - 1873 - 780 str.
...experiences they may convey into an unmoral nature ; and I know not on what ground we could longer say, " It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than...be Socrates dissatisfied, than a fool satisfied." * The one of these is " better" than the other, — the dissatisfied than the satisfied, — only when... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1873 - 408 str.
...they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all the good which those imperfections quality. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied, than a pig satisfied ; better to he Socrates... | |
 | Francis William Newman - 1874 - 196 str.
...Happiness ? But the inventor, expounder and glorifier* of the word " Utilitarianism " has avowed that it is "BETTER to be a human being dissatisfied than...satisfied ; BETTER to be Socrates dissatisfied, than a satisfied fool : " and all but the unwise will agree with him. To say that Happiness is a " Sum Total... | |
 | 1877 - 532 str.
...all human beings possess in one form or another," and so on. He concludes the paragraph by saying : "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied : it is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool or the pig are of... | |
 | James Sully - 1877 - 532 str.
...abiding feeling of satisfaction. ' Happiness/ says JS Mill, ' is not the same thing as contentment. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.' Yet, in the same essay, Mill distinctly talks about ' a satisfied life ' where a moderate share of... | |
 | James Sully - 1877 - 500 str.
...abiding feeling of satisfaction. ' Happiness,' says JS Mill, ' is not the same thing as contentment. It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.' Yet, in the same essay, Mill distinctly talks about ' a satisfied life ' where a moderate share of... | |
 | John Stuart Mill - 1879 - 288 str.
...they are at all bearable; and they will not make him envy the being who is indeed unconscious of the imperfections, but only because he feels not at all...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... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1879 - 396 str.
...disappointed in the acquisition ' (Scott). ' My lord says that nobody wears their own hair ' (Thackeray). ' If the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they ou'.y know their own side of the question ' (3. S. Mill). Concord of Tenses. 1 1 . There is also a... | |
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It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. 
