
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 53.
Source: Travels in the North of Germany (1820), p. 86, Vol. 2
“The calculus of utility aims at supplying the ordinary wants of man at the least cost of labour.”
Source: The Theory of Political Economy (1871), Chapter I, Introduction, p. 53.
Paris Review interview (1958)
Context: No one is without Christianity, if we agree on what we mean by that word. It is every individual’s individual code of behavior by means of which he makes himself a better human being than his nature wants to be, if he followed his nature only. Whatever its symbol — cross or crescent or whatever — that symbol is man’s reminder of his duty inside the human race. Its various allegories are the charts against which he measures himself and learns to know what he is. It cannot teach a man to be good as the textbook teaches him mathematics. It shows him how to discover himself, evolve for himself a moral codes and standard within his capacities and aspirations, by giving him a matchless example of suffering and sacrifice and the promise of hope.
Erving Goffman (1967: 10), as cited in: Trevino (2003,, p. 37).
1950s-1960s
"Remarks on the Utility of Classical Learning" (written in 1769), published in Essays, Vol. II (1776), p. 524.
“The brave man carves out his fortune, and every man is the son of his own works.”
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book I, Ch. 4.
The Power of the Spirit (1898), edited by Andrew Murray, further edited by Dave Hunt (1971) Ch. 6 : The Church : A Habitation of the Spirit.
“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”
“Every man prays in his own language.”
Section title and eponymous song of A Concert of Sacred Music (1965).
Three Worlds, Three Summers — But Not the Summer Just Past.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 403.