All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“...the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either… — john stuart mill Copy Share Image
A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
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
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some… — 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
Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in many… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“My father’s moral inculcations were at all times mainly those of the Socratici viri; justice, temperance (to which he gave a very… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality, is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but… — 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
“The necessity of an enumeration of Existences, as the basis of Logic, did not escape the attention of the schoolmen, and of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract… — 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
It is useful that while mankind are imperfect there should be different opinions, so is it that there should be different experiments… — 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
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a substitute for the Categories of Aristotle considered as a classification of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It is not by wearing down into uniformity all that is individual in themselves, but by cultivating it and calling it forth… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself. — 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
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