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Bodies are real entities. Surfaces and lines are but fictitious entities. A surface without depth, a line without thickness, was never seen by any man; no; nor can any conception be seriously formed of its existence.
— Jeremy Bentham The Panopticon Writings
Tags: philosophy, phenomenology, ontology

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All punishment is mischief; all punishment in itself is evil.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tags: itself, punishment, evil
It is the greatest good to the greatest number of people which is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tags: right, wrong, people, good
The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tags: right, wrong, truth-is, truth, happiness
Stretching his hand up to reach the stars, too often man forgets the flowers at his feet.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tags: feet, flowers, stars, man
Nature has placed mankind under the governance of two sovereign masters, pain and pleasure. It is for them alone to point out what we ought to do, as well as to determine what we shall do.
— Jeremy Bentham
Tags: well, two, pleasure, pain, alone, nature
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