The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness. (Herbert Spencer)

The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

Herbert Spencer

Related topics

attainment general happiness requisite

Related quotes

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual. View quote
Philip Zimbardo
Capitalism might be defined, if we wish to be scientific, as a form of economic organization motivated by the pursuit of profit within a price structure. View quote
Carroll Quigley
There is a divergence between private and social accounting that the market fails to register. One essential task of law and government is to institute the necessary conditions. View quote
John Rawls
If the attainment of peace is the ultimate objective of all statesmen, it is, at the same time, something very ordinary, closely tied to the daily life of each individual. View quote
Eisaku Sato
Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery. View quote
Horace Mann