"How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it," Smith wrote.
This quotation appears on the very first page of the "Theory of Moral Sentiments":How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it.Smith voices similar opinions when he mentions the "invisible hand".
Or try this for an eloquent defence of why the welfare state benefits not just the poor: "How selfish man be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature which interest him in the fortunes of others and render their happiness necessary to him though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it," wrote Adam Smith in the Theory of Moral Sentiments.
From the first lines of the book Smith is clear about where his theory will take him, "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".
How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortunes of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it, except the pleasure of seeing it.
This sentence says that "How selfish soever man may be supposed, there are evidently some principles in his nature, which interest him in the fortune of others, and render their happiness necessary to him, though he derives nothing from it except the pleasure of seeing it".
In a world when our teachers are frequently maligned even though they hold our future as a nation in their hands there is evidently something terribly wrong.
However, if trial results confirm unrealistically large anticipated intervention effects by 'play of chance' there is evidently a great risk of misleading trial results.
The strike may be over, but there is evidently much hard bargaining ahead.
There is evidently a fear that it has deterred potential supporters.
An ancestor had founded Van Heusen shirts, and there was evidently no shortage of money.
