“Increase of love brings increase of happiness, when it is mutual, and pure as that will be.”
Source: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848), Ch. XLV : Reconciliation; Helen to Gilbert
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“Happiness and Misery must inevitably increase with increasing Power and Knowledge”
James Clerk Maxwell (1831–1879) Scottish physicist
Letter to Lewis Campbell (9 November 1851) in Ch. 6 : Undergraduate Life At Cambridge October 1850 to January 1854 — ÆT. 19-22, p. 158
The Life of James Clerk Maxwell (1882)
Context: I believe, with the Westminster Divines and their predecessors ad Infinitum that "Man's chief end is to glorify God and to enjoy him for ever."
That for this end to every man has been given a progressively increasing power of communication with other creatures.
That with his powers his susceptibilities increase. That happiness is indissolubly connected with the full exercise of these powers in their intended direction. That Happiness and Misery must inevitably increase with increasing Power and Knowledge. That the translation from the one course to the other is essentially miraculous, while the progress is natural. But the subject is too high. I will not, however, stop short, but proceed to Intellectual Pursuits.
Abraham Isaac Kook (1865–1935) first Ashkenazi chief rabbi of the British Mandatory Palestine
Arpilei Tohar (1914), p. 2.
“Happiness is the feeling that power increases - that resistance is being overcome.”
Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900) German philosopher, poet, composer, cultural critic, and classical philologist
Source: The Anti-Christ
“The tragedy of human history is decreasing happiness in the midst of increasing comforts.”
Chinmayananda Saraswati (1916–1993) Indian spiritual teacher
in A Treasury Of Inspirational Thoughts http://books.google.co.in/books?id=rdHW86GkUrMC&pg=PA68, p. 58 <br class="br">Quotations from Gurudev’s teachings, Chinmya Mission Chicago
Honoré de Balzac (1799–1850) French writer
Entre personnes sans cesse en présence, la haine et l'amour vont toujours croissant: on trouve à tout moment des raisons pour s'aimer ou se haïr mieux.
Source: The Vicar of Tours (1832), Ch. I.
Sarmad Kashani (1590–1661) Persian mystic, poet and saint
Source: Sarmad, Martyr to Love Divine, p. 241 (2005)