Matter is the permanent possibility of sensations," said…

“find the experience of diving into a new world the most exhilarating of sensations,” he said. “I agree. Each book is like a little…

— Santa Montefiore

“The ethic of autonomy is based on the idea that people are, first and foremost, autonomous individuals with wants, needs, and preferences. People should…

— Jonathan Haidt

It's wrong to treat Muslims as if they will never find their John Stuart Mill. Christianity and Judaism show people can be very dogmatic…

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

“We would do well to remember that the great pragmatist William James dedicated his extraordinarily wide-ranging Varieties of Religious Experience to none other than…

— Bart Schultz

“I’m heartened by our dissatisfaction, because dissatisfaction is a world away from indifference. The widespread nostalgia, the yearning for a past that never really…

— Rutger Bregman

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

“And there you have your Founders and Framers in all their elite glory—the 1 percent of their time. Many spent more than they made.…

— Ed Asner

“Still, to paraphrase what John Stuart Mill said about the stupidity of the Tories, while not all people who claim to be politically incorrect…

— Geoffrey Nunberg

“As the philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, "It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates…

— Daniel Gilbert

“There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life. —JOHN STUART MILL”

— Brian Christian

The proper role of government is exactly what John Stuart Mill said in the middle of the nineteenth century in On Liberty. The proper…

— Milton Friedman

“Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives... I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant…

— John Stuart Mill

Human envy is certainly not one of the sources of discontent that a free society can eliminate. It is probably one of the essential…

— Friedrich August von Hayek

“John Stuart Mill declared that tyranny makes men cynical. He did not know that a Republic makes them silent.”

— Anonymous

“Ask yourself if you are happy and you cease to be so.” That was John Stuart Mill, the nineteenth-century British philosopher who believed that…

— Eric Weiner