„Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence.“
Quelle: A Woman's Thoughts About Women (1858), Ch. 10
Kontext: Happiness is not an end — it is only a means, and adjunct, a consequence. The Omnipotent Himself could never be supposed by any, save those who out of their own human selfishness construct the attributes of Divinity, to be absorbed throughout eternity in the contemplation of His own ineffable bliss, were it not identical with His ineffable goodness and love.
Dinah Maria Mulock
englische Schriftstellerin 1826 - 1887Ähnliche Zitate
— James Russell Lowell American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat 1819 - 1891
On Democracy (6 October 1884)
Kontext: I have hinted that what people are afraid of in democracy is less the thing itself than what they conceive to be its necessary adjuncts and consequences. It is supposed to reduce all mankind to a dead level of mediocrity in character and culture, to vulgarize men's conceptions of life, and therefore their code of morals, manners, and conduct — to endanger the rights of property and possession. But I believe that the real gravamen of the charges lies in the habit it has of making itself generally disagreeable by asking the Powers that Be at the most inconvenient moment whether they are the powers that ought to be. If the powers that be are in a condition to give a satisfactory answer to this inevitable question, they need feel in no way discomfited by it.
„Happy endings are bullshit. There are only happy pauses.“
— Brian K. Vaughan American screenwriter, comic book creator 1976
Quelle: Ex Machina, Vol. 10: Term Limits
„This is not an end, but only a means to an end.“
— Wilhelm Liebknecht German socialist politician 1826 - 1900
No Compromise – No Political Trading (1899)
„Happiness is the meaning and the purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.“
— Aristotle Classical Greek philosopher, student of Plato and founder of Western philosophy -384 - -321 v.Chr
„Happiness is the meaning and purpose of life, the whole aim and end of human existence.“
— Gretchen Rubin American writer 1966
Quelle: The Happiness Project: Or Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun
— John Ruskin English writer and art critic 1819 - 1900
The Crown of Wild Olive, lecture IV: The Future of England, section 151 (1866).
„There are no happy endings in history, only crisis points that pass.“
— Isaac Asimov, buch The Gods Themselves
Section 3, Chapter 19, p. 287
Quelle: The Gods Themselves (1972)
„In art, truth is a means to an end; in science, it is the only end.“
— William Whewell English philosopher & historian of science 1794 - 1866
Aphorism 25.
Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences (1840)
„Happiness is the consequence of personal effort.“
— Elizabeth Gilbert, buch Eat, Pray, Love
Quelle: Eat, Pray, Love (2006)
Kontext: Happiness is the consequence of personal effort. You fight for it, strive for it, insist upon it, and sometimes even travel around the world looking for it. You have to participate relentlessly in the manifestations of your own blessings. And once you have achieved a state of happiness, you must never become lax about maintaining it. You must make a mighty effort to keep swimming upward into that happiness forever, to stay afloat on top of it.
„A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified“
— Leon Trotsky Marxist revolutionary from Russia 1879 - 1940
Quelle: Their Morals and Ours (1938)
Kontext: A means can be justified only by its end. But the end in its turn needs to be justified, From the Marxist point of view, which expresses the historical interests of the proletariat, the end is justified if it leads to increasing the power of man over nature and to the abolition of the power of man over man.
„Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.“
— Robert G. Ingersoll Union United States Army officer 1833 - 1899
— Albert Einstein German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity 1879 - 1955
1930s
Original: (de) Die Diktatur bringt den Maulkorb und dieser die Stumpfheit. Wissenschaft kann nur gedeihen in einer Atmosphäre des Freien Wortes.
"Science and Dictatorship," in Dictatorship on Its Trial, by Eminent Leaders of Modern Thought (1930) - later as Dictatorship on Trial (1931), Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889-1965), ed., Huntley Paterson, trans., introduction by Winston Churchill, George G. Harrap & Co., (Reprinted 1977, Beaufort Books Inc., ISBN 0836916077 ISBN 9780836916072 p. 107. https://books.google.com/books?id=IjsiAAAAMAAJ&dq=9780836916072&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22only+in+an+atmosphere+of+free+speech%22 https://books.google.com/books?id=alq9M3_8qIcC&dq=9780836916072&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj9w8nJkYfKAhUL12MKHf5uCscQ6AEIHDAA http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt/search?q1=%22Science%20can%20flourish%20only%20in%20an%20atmosphere%20of%20free%20speech%22;id=uc1.%24b47955;view=1up;seq=9;start=1;sz=10;page=search;orient=0 http://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000590821 Original text of this "nineteen word essay" https://www.google.com/#tbm=bks&q=%22Albert+Einstein+in+his+nineteen+word+essay+on+Science+and+Dictatorship%22 appears under the German title, "Wissenschaft und Diktatur" in Prozess der Diktatur (1930), Otto Forst de Battaglia (1889-1965), ed., Amalthea-Verlag, p.108. https://books.google.com/books?id=Q9DRAAAAMAAJ&dq=editions%3ATP1X5VVtHxAC&focus=searchwithinvolume&q=%22Die+Diktatur+bringt+den+maulkorb+und+dieser+die+stumpfheit.+Wissenschaft+kann+nur+gedeihen+in+einer+Atmosph%C3%A4re+des+freien+Wortes%22
„Happiness happens by chance, and is not a law or the logical consequences of actions.“
— Elfriede Jelinek Austrian writer 1946
P 8
Women As Lovers (1994)
