Life Quotes by John Stuart Mill

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

He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like…

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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.

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A party of order or stability, and a party of progress or reform, are both necessary elements of a healthy state of…

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“...the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either…

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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more…

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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.

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Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is…

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“This, until a better can be suggested, may serve as a substitute for the Categories of Aristotle considered as a classification of…

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I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state…

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Not only the grounds of the opinion are forgotten in the absence of discussion, but too often the meaning of the opinion…

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“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of…

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“The necessity of an enumeration of Existences, as the basis of Logic, did not escape the attention of the schoolmen, and of…

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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life…

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“Of all difficulties which impede the progress of thought, and the formation of well-grounded opinions on life and social arrangements, the greatest…

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“They are not insincere when they say that they believe these things. They do believe them, as people believe what they have…

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“Yet the love of money is not only one of the strongest moving forces of human life, but money is, in many…

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“To those who have neither public nor private affections, the excitements of life are much curtailed, and in any case dwindle in…

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In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and…

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“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by…

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“The actual existence of the subject of the proposition is therefore only apparently, not really, implied in the predication, if an essential…

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“It still remains unrecognised, that to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide…

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There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding…

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He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of…

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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.

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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as…

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“He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him has no need of…

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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.

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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties…

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Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so. The only chance is to treat not happiness, but some…

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...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but…

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It is useful while mankind is imperfect that there should be different opinions, so that there should be different experiments of living,…

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“Capacity for the nobler feelings is in most natures a very tender plant, easily killed, not only by hostile influences, but by…

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Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of…

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“Truth, in the great practical concerns of life, is so much a question of the reconciling and combining of opposites, that very…

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The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent…

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There is always need of persons not only to discover new truths, and point out when what were once truths are true…

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“Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it,…

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“Human beings are no longer born to their place in life, and chained down by an inexorable bond to the place they…

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It is part of the irony of life that the strongest feelings of devoted gratitude of which human nature seems to be…

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