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Example sentences for "human happiness"

  • It was not my ambition merely to impart interesting facts: my concern was the practical application of these facts, their relation to human happiness.

  • Science and art are both necessary to human happiness.

  • It is manifest, however, that a theory which recognised no other end in virtue than the promotion of human happiness, could supply no adequate basis for the movement.

  • The one is the denial of human happiness; the other the denial of human hope.

  • It is no false reflection of human happiness in the clouds.

  • For what we have here to study is not the production of the lowest forms of animal life, but the highest forms of human happiness.

  • Among such persons, human happiness would be promoted both now and in the future if the number of offspring were naught.

  • Indeed a regard for the totality of human happiness makes it necessary that they should not so continue.

  • By so doing, it undoubtedly fulfills the requirements of that popular philosophy which holds the aim of society to be the greatest happiness for the greatest number, or more definitely the increase of the totality of human happiness.

  • These things have been surprisingly overlooked by most men, for the sake of attending to others, whose bearing on human happiness, if not often questionable, is at least more remote.

  • This institution is peculiarly interesting from the fact that it involves so many items of human happiness.

  • I oppose nothing that is good in any creed--I attack only that which is ignorant, cruel and absurd, and I make the attack in the interest of human liberty, and for the sake of human happiness.

  • I would then regard science as the enemy of human happiness, and ignorance as the soil in which virtues grow.

  • By this time people should learn that human happiness is the foundation of virtue--the foundation of morality.

  • I want to see the time when we live for this world and when all shall endeavor to increase, by education, by reason, and by persuasion, the sum of human happiness.

  • By education he will mean the gaining of useful knowledge, the development of the mind along the natural paths that lead to human happiness.

  • I would have them tell all their "flocks" to think for themselves, to be manly men and womanly women, and to do all in their power to increase the sum of human happiness.

  • The toleration of Slavery was the one and grave exception to his unstinted admiration of the United States, which afforded, in his opinion, "the most magnificent picture of human happiness" which the world had ever seen.

  • He did not make the improvement of the great mass of mankind an engine of popularity, and a stepping-stone to power, but he had a genuine love of human happiness.

  • But it is quite a different matter in its effect on human happiness, of which it is here our object to treat; and we should rather be careful to dissuade people from setting too much store by what others think of them.

  • One of the greatest arts of human happiness is to keep the mind, under all circumstances, in one even, regular position, neither too much elated by flattering prospects, nor too much depressed by misfortunes.

  • Thomas Browne has argued that death is one of the necessary conditions of human happiness, and he supports his argument with great force and eloquence.

  • Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and makes some virtues impracticable and others extremely difficult.

  • In general the conversation of these little creatures is rather light and frivolous and gay; but it is really a fact that they were just then all serious together and all were engaged in a very profound conversation on human happiness.

  • If my gift succeed I will tell you all about it, or you shall guess it yourselves; for I now propose that our Fairy Gifts this year shall be a sort of experiment on human happiness.

  • That which increases the sum of human happiness is moral; and that which diminishes the sum of human happiness is immoral.

  • Human happiness iz like Joseph's coat--a thing of menny colors.

  • Human happiness iz like the Hottentott language, enny boddy kan talk it well enuff, but thare ain't but phew can understand it.

  • Human happiness iz sutch an eazy, simple thing that thoze who hav the most ov it kno it the least.

  • Human happiness konsists in having what yu want, and wanting what yu hav.

  • His art is not destructive to life, piling on misery to man's many woes, but he enriches life manifold by adding comfort and luxury to the widening circle of human happiness.

  • One architect of Utopia proposes to upbuild the city of Human Happiness by hand labour.

  • How many pleasant thoughts and noble thoughts have been brought to birth in a garden which afterward grew into brave deeds and gentle lives contributing generously to enrich the sum of human happiness!

  • The superficial, unpsychological theories of human happiness, which have been hammered into the working population of our age, have made true happiness more and more difficult to attain.

  • Nobody doubts that socialism would overcome some of the obvious weaknesses of the capitalistic era, and those weaknesses may be acknowledged even if we are faithful to our plan and abstract from mere human happiness.

  • He asks himself only whether the goal can be reached, whether such a socialistic society would really secure a larger amount of human happiness.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
    fair complexion; human affection; human anatomy; human association; human conduct; human development; human existence; human figure; human happiness; human head; human institutions; human learning; human liberty; human passion; human prudence; human races; human reason; human slavery; human society; human suffering; human victims; human wants; human work; little experience; third natural; work for