A Quote from History of Psychology

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Who said? "I would rather be a man dissatisfied than a pig satisfied because a man knows the difference."

-- Doug Coldwell (littleriver@ns.sympatico.ca), March 29, 2003

Answers

I believe it is John Stuart Mill in his Utilitarianism: "It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied." (according to Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, which is the best place to start with questions like this)

-- Hendrika Vande Kemp (hendrika@earthlink.net), March 30, 2003.

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