“There have been, and may be again, great individual thinkers, in a general atmosphere of mental slavery.” — 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
Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".” — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Those only are happy … who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness, "a crisis in my… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the… — 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
All acts suppose certain dispositions, and habits of mind and heart, which may be in themselves states of enjoyment or of wretchedness,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“when we say of any one that he is generous. The word generosity expresses a certain state of mind, but being a… — 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
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“If there are any persons who contest a received opinion, or who will do so if law or opinion will let them,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Where there is a tacit convention that principles are not to be disputed; where the discussion of the greatest questions which can… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Most boys or youths who have had much knowledge drilled into them, have their mental capacities not strengthened, but overlaid by it.… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“[People] ask themselves, what is suitable for my position? What is usually done by persons of my station and percuniary circumstances? Or… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small… — 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
Education is one of the subjects which most essentially require to be considered by various minds, and from a variety of points… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Yet the same gradual decay to which, after a certain age, all the language of psychology seems liable, has been at work… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“What is boasted of at the present time as the revival of religion, is always, in narrow and uncultivated minds, at least… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others,… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure… — 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
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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