Quotessence
Home / Quotes / Quote by John Stuart Mill

Quote by John Stuart Mill

Work

The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill

The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill delves into the lives and works of Jeremy Bentham and John Stuart Mill, examining their contributions to the utilitarian philosophy. It provides an in-depth analysis of their theories and their impact on ethical thought. more

Author

John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill was an influential British philosopher, economist, and logician. He is one of the most important figures in 19th-century philosophy and his ideas had a profound impact on political, social, and philosophical thought of the time. more

You May Also Like

“You win over people just like you win over a dog. You see a dog passing down the street with an old bone in his mouth. You don't grab the bone from him and tell him it's not good for him. He'll growl at you. It's the only thing he has. But you throw a big fat lamb chop in front of him, and he's going to drop that bone and pick up the lamb chop, his tail wagging to beat the band. And you've got a friend. Instead of going around grabbing bones from people... I'm going to throw them some lamb chops. Something with real meat and life in it. I'm going to tell them about New Beginnings.”

PeopleRealBigsWinningStreetsDogFrontsLike YouBandBeatsMouthsPicksBonesPassingFatsPassingsMeatTailsNew BeginningsLambsGrabbing
Author:David Wilkerson
Create image

“The problem of reconciling human suffering with the existence of a God who loves, is only insoluble so long as we attach a trivial meaning to the word "love", and look on things as if man were the centre of them. Man is not the centre. God does not exist for the sake of man. Man does not exist for his own sake. "Thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created." We were made not primarily that we may love God (though we were made for that too) but that God may love us, that we may become objects in which the divine love may rest "well pleased".”

IfsMenHumansWellsLooksMayLongDoeMadeProblemSufferingLove IsPleasureExistenceObjectsDivineAll ThingsSakeGod LoveCentreDivine LoveHuman SufferingWords Love
Book:A Mind Awake: An Anthology of C. S. Lewis
Create image

“God has no needs. Human love, as Plato teaches us, is the child of Poverty – of want or lack; it is caused by a real or supposed goal in its beloved which the lover needs and desires. But God's love, far from being caused by goodness in the object, causes all the goodness which the object has, loving it first into existence, and then into real, though derivative, lovability. God is Goodness. He can give good, but cannot need or get it. In that sense , His love is, as it were, bottomlessly selfless by very definition; it has everything to give, and nothing to receive.”

WantNeedsGivingFirstsHumansChildrenRealDesireCausesGoalLove IsExistencePovertyTeachObjectsLoversGoodnessDefinitionsBelovedSelflessPlatoHis LoveGod's LoveDerivativesHuman Love
Author:C. S. Lewis
Create image