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The habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Of all many-sided subjects, [education] is the one which has the greatest number of sides (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
So natural to mankind is intolerance... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
What ever crushes individuality is despotism, no matter what name it is called (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
That miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
That a thing is unnatural... Is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are, to a being like man, not more unnatural than most of the virtues (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of any human being (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
If all mankind minus one were of one 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)
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it (John Stuart Mill Quotes)
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses (John Stuart Mill Quotes)