Quotes by Henry Sidgwick

"One has to kill a few of one’s natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents."
— 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."
— Henry Sidgwick
"Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable. ..."
— Henry Sidgwick
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Henry 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...