My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The beliefs which we have most warrant for, have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
A being who can create a race of men devoid of real freedom and inevitably foredoomed to be sinners, and then punish… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is conceivable that religion may be morally useful without being intellectually sustainable. — 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
It is historically true that a large proportion of infidels in all ages have been persons of distinguished integrity and honor. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
So natural to mankind is intolerance ... that religious freedom has hardly anywhere been practically realized. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction.... In its horror of sensuality, it made an idol of asceticism,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
He must be able to hear them [the counter arguments] from persons who actually believe them; who defend them in earnest, and… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The majority, being satisfied with the ways of mankind as they now are (for it is they who make them what they… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It can do truth no service to blind the fact, known to all who have the most ordinary acquaintance with literary history,… — 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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