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Ian O’Shaughnessy

Quotes · John Stuart Mill

“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, are of a different opinion, it is because they know only their side of the question.”

– John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, 1863

From volume I of the file · Book · 19th century

Themes: philosophy · wisdom & folly