Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Bentham
Jeremy Benthamwas an English philosopher, jurist, and social reformer. He is regarded as the founder of modern utilitarianism...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth15 February 1748
ideas independence accessories
The word "independence" is united to the accessory ideas of dignity and virtue. The word "dependence" is united to the ideas of inferiority and corruption.
punishment evil mischief
All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
practice track consistency
[I]n principle and in practice, in a right track and in a wrong one, the rarest of all human qualities is consistency.
support ignorant asylums
Lawsuits generally originate with the obstinate and the ignorant, but they do not end with them; and that lawyer was right who left all his money to the support of an asylum for fools and lunatics, saying that from such he got it, and to such he would bequeath it.
pain pleasure setting
Pleasure is in itself a good; nay, even setting aside immunity from pain, the only good.
real men body
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.
historical looks christianity
If Christianity needed an Anti-Christ, they needed look no farther than Paul.
simple rights nonsense
Natural rights is simple nonsense: natural and imprescriptible rights, rhetorical nonsense—nonsense upon stilts.
ambition mind fiction
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.
religion asceticism earth
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.
fate kingdoms turns
The turn of a sentence has decided the fate of many a friendship, and, for aught that we know, the fate of many a kingdom.
would-be difficulty wiser
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
english-philosopher good number people
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
english-philosopher foundation happiness number
The greatest happiness of the greatest number is the foundation of morals and legislation.