“One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.”
Quotes by Henry Sidgwick
“The good of any one individual is of no more importance, from the point of view (if I may so say) of the Universe, than the good of any other; unless, that is, there are special grounds for believing that more good is likely to be realized in the one case than in the other.”
“Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable. ...”
Henry SidgwickHenry Sidgwick (/ˈsɪdʒwɪk/; 31 May 1838 – 28 August 1900) was an English utilitarian philosopher and economist and is best known in philosophy for his utilitarian treatise The Methods of Ethics. His w...