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Quotation from Utilitarianism by John Stuart Mill
“it is only those in whom the need of excitement is a disease, that feel the tranquillity which follows excitement dull and insipid, instead of pleasurable in direct proportion to the excitement which preceded it”
Utilitarianism, Chapter II (7th edition (1879))
Part of Mill's realistic account of happiness as an alternation of tranquillity and excitement; a craving that cannot rest is classed as pathological.
Citation: "it is only those in whom the need of excitement is a disease, that feel the tranquillity which follows excitement dull and insipid, instead of pleasurable in direct proportion to the excitement which preceded it" — John Stuart Mill, Utilitarianism, Chapter II (7th edition (1879)). (id utilitarianism-q5)
Portrait: John Stuart Mill by London Stereoscopic Company, c1870, London Stereoscopic Company, Public domain.
