“It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.” WorldBelieveMayImportantHelpingFeelingsSeemsIndividualCan DoEnvironmentMankindCreatingVoteElectionMajorityMiseryPresidentialImprovingFallacyHysteriaCan Do SomethingConceitedPresidential ElectionDoing Your BestReasonableness Book:A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42 Source: A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42
“If humans did not manufacture some of their own to appear like better people, people would not aspire to be someone else. They would stop dreaming. And if people didn't dream, they would be awake to discover the wonderful misery of being. There are no singular great people. There is only a small percentage of people manufactured to look significant, for the purpose of creating the feeling of mass insignificance.” PeopleIfsHumansLooksFeelingsDreamWould BePurposeWonderfulCreatingMassMiserySignificantAwakeAspirePercentagesGreat PeopleBeing ThereInsignificanceStop Dreaming Author:Craig Stone
“It is a strange feeling for a girl when first she finds the power put into her hand of influencing the destiny of another to happiness or misery. She is like a magician holding for the first time a fairy wand, not having yet had experience of its potency.” FirstsFeelingsHandsGirlWomenDestinyInfluenceStrangeFirst TimeMiseryFairyMagicianWandsPotency Book:Lodore Source: Lodore
“Create all the happiness you are able to create: remove all the misery you are able to remove. Every day will allow you to add something to the pleasure of others, or to diminish something of their pains. And for every grain of enjoyment you sow in the bosom of another, you shall find a harvest in your own bosom; while every sorrow which you pluck out from the thoughts and feelings of a fellow creature shall be replaced by beautiful peace and joy in the sanctuary of your soul.” SoulFeelingsAblePainBeautifulJoyPleasureSorrowCreaturesFellowsAddMiseryYour SoulEnjoymentRemoveGrainReplacedHarvestDiminishBosomsSanctuaryThoughts And FeelingsPluckPeace And Joy Author:Jeremy Bentham