happiness-of-the-greatest-number

Updated: May 7, 2025

While others nurse their griefs, he nurses his joy. He endeavours to find himself at no matter what cost, and to be true to that self when found a worthy and ample occupation for a life-time. The happiness-of-the-greatest-number, of those who pasture on delusions: what dreamer is responsible for this eunuchry? Mill, was it? Bentham, more likely.

Norman Douglas - Alone