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
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
“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
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
[I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide… — 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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“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
“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they… — 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
“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
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
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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