He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A people among whom there is no habit of spontaneous action for a collective interest - who look habitually to their government… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A cultivated mind is one to which the fountains of knowledge have been opened, and which has been taught, in any tolerable… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The average condition of the people improving or deteriorating, depends upon whether population is advancing faster than improvement, or improvement than population. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of poverty; they are still chained to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness, and which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In history, as in traveling, men usually see only what they already had in their own minds; and few learn much from history, who… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
All errors which a man is likely to commit against advice are far outweighed by the evil of allowing others to constrain him for… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[For people] to refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
This is what writers mean when they say that the notion of cause involves the idea of necessity. If there be any meaning which… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
