Quotes from Henry Sidgwick

Reason shows me that if my happiness is desirable and good, the equal happiness of any other person must be equally desirable.

One has to kill a few of one's natural selves to let the rest grow — a very painful slaughter of innocents.

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. ...

The mystery of death is not solved by dying just as the mystery of life is not solved by living .

whereas the philosopher seeks unity of principle, and consistency of method at the risk of paradox, the unphilosophic man is apt to hold different principles at once, and to apply different methods in more or less confused combination.