Francis Hutcheson quotes
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“Wisdom denotes the pursuing of the best ends by the best means.”
-- Francis HutchesonSource : 'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 1, sect. 5, subsect. 16
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“That action is best which procures the greatest happiness.”
-- Francis HutchesonSource : 'An Inquiry into the Original of our Ideas of Beauty and Virtue' (1725) treatise 2, sect. 3, subsect. 8.
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“Unalienable rights are essential limitations to all governments.”
-- Francis HutchesonSource : Francis Hutcheson (1753). “An inquiry into the original of our ideas of beauty and virtue”, p.301
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“The ultimate notion of right is that which tends to the universal good; and when one's acting in a certain manner has this tendency he has a right thus to act.”
-- Francis HutchesonSource : Francis Hutcheson (1755). “A System Of Moral Philosophy: In Three Books : To which is Prefixed Some Account Of The Life, Writings, And Character Of The Author”, p.266
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“Many are really virtuous who cannot explain what virtue is . . . But the powers themselves in reality perform their several operations with sufficient constancy and uniformity in persons of good health whatever their opinions be about them . . .”
-- Francis HutchesonSource : Francis Hutcheson (1769). “An Essay on the Nature and Conduct of the Passions and Affections”, p.7
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“I studied adab for thirty years and I studied knowledge for twenty years.”
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“You can't be without passion. Passion means the possessiveness to be the best.”
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“Delete, delete, delete and at the end find the ‘core aspect of the design’”
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Source : Adam Gidwitz (2012). “In a Glass Grimmly”, p.143, Penguin
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