John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
John Ogilby (1600–1676) Scottish academic
The Works of Publius Virgilius Maro (2nd ed. 1654), Virgil's Æneis
“Better the myth of happiness, than the myth of despair.”
Michael Moorcock The Cornelius Quartet
The Cornelius Quartet, The Condition of Muzak (1977)
Source: The Mirror; or, Harlequin Everywhere (p. 786)
“Despair is anger with no place to go.”
Mignon McLaughlin (1913–1983) American journalist
The Complete Neurotic's Notebook (1981), Unclassified
“Hide it in a hiding place where no one ever goes
Put it in your pantry with your cupcakes”
Paul Simon (1941) American musician, songwriter and producer
“That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers”
Francis Hutcheson (philosopher) (1694–1746) Irish philosopher
An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue (1725) Treatise II, Section 3
Context: That Action is best, which procures the greatest Happiness for the greatest Numbers; and that worst, which, in like manner, occasions Misery.
“To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
“The sense of existence is the greatest happiness.”
Benjamin Disraeli (1804–1881) British Conservative politician, writer, aristocrat and Prime Minister
Part 3, Chapter 1.
Books, Coningsby (1844), Contarini Fleming (1832)