...older. -William Lyon Phelps 237) Happiness is the supreme object of existence. -/. Gilchrist Lawson 238) That all who are happy are equally happy is not true. A peasant and a philosopher may 67 be equally satisfied, but not equally happy. -Johnson 239) The true happiness is of a retired nature,...

...of others. " Karl R. Popper, Conjectures and Refutations: The Growth of Scientific Knowledge "Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not...consists in the multiplicity of agreeable consciousness. " Samuel Johnson, quoted in Boswell, Life of Samuel Johnson To live with reason as a value is to practice...

...partaking of it in a very largo degree. Thus his denunciation of Hume's theory of happiness : — ' " Sir, that all who are happy, are equally happy, is not...capacity for having equal happiness with a philosopher." I remember' this very question very happily illustrated in opposition to Hume, by the lievereml Mr....

...— The perfection of love is constancy, and of friendship disinterestedness. — Feltham's Resolves. HAPPINESS. That all who are happy are equally happy,...consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for having equal hap piness with a philosopher. This question was very happily illustrated by the Rev. Mr. Robert Brown,...

...distinction between satisfaction and happiness to show that not all who are happy are equally happy. ' A peasant and a philosopher may be equally satisfied...agreeable consciousness. A peasant has not capacity for equal happiness with a philosopher ' (L. ii. 9). Plato had said something of the same sort before him,...

...agreeable consciousnesses, and so happiness. A little miss in a new ball gown and a victorious general, "or a peasant and a philosopher, may be equally satisfied but not equally happy." Such in brief is Johnson's stated idea of life, — a time of wretchedness and trials to bo improved...