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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some end external to it, as the purpose of life (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The despotism of custom is on the wane. We are not content to know that things are; we ask whether they ought to be (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable degree, to exercise its faculties (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds? (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Wherever the sentiment of the majority is still genuine and intense, it is found to have abated little of its claim to be obeyed (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
No man made the land. It is the original inheritance of the whole species. Its appropriation is wholly a question of general expediency. When private property in land is not expedient, it is unjust (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions, insofar as these concern the interests of no person but himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Human existence is girt round with mystery: The narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Strong impulses are but another name for energy. Energy may be turned to bad uses; but more good may always be made of an energetic nature, than of an indolent and impassive one (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak. There is no natural connection between strong impulses and a weak conscience (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Some of those modern reformers who have placed themselves in strongest opposition to the religions of the past, have been noway behind either churches or sects in their assertion of the right of spiritual domination (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person, than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
While every one well knows himself to be fallible, few think it necessary to take any precautions against their own fallibility, or admit the supposition that any opinion, of which they feel very certain, may be one of the examples of the error to which they acknowledge themselves to be liable (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Ages are no more infallible than individuals; every age having held many opinions which subsequent ages have deemed not only false but absurd; and it is as certain that many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Penalties for opinion, or at least for its expression, still exist by law; and their enforcement is not, even in these times, so unexampled as to make it at all incredible that they may some day be revived in full force (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It really is of importance, not only what men do, but also what manner of men they are that do it. Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting and beautifying, the first in importance surely is man himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It will probably be conceded that it is desirable people should exercise their understandings, and that an intelligent following of custom, or even occasionally an intelligent deviation from custom, is better than a blind and simply mechanical adhesion to it (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Whenever the general disposition of the people is such, that each individual regards those only of his interests which are selfish, and does not dwell on, or concern himself for, his share of the general interest, in such a state of things, good government is impossible (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures (John Stuart Mill Quotes)