“It is with philosophy as with religion : men marvel at the absurdity of other people's tenets, while exactly parallel absurdities remain… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“There are many who consider as an injury to themselves any conduct which they have a distaste for, and resent it as… — 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
On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“His aversion to religion, in the sense usually attached to the term, was of the same kind with that of Lucretius: he… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had… — 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
If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to… — 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
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
The ne plus ultra of wickedness is embodied in what is commonly presented to mankind as the creed of Christianity. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people. — 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
The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those most distinguished even in… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The world would be astonished if it knew how great a proportion of its brightest ornaments, of those distinguished even in popular… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The time appears to me to have come when it is the duty of all to make their dissent from religion known. — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity? — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The great writers to whom the world owes what religious liberty it possesses, have mostly asserted freedom of conscience as an indefeasible… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
“religion, the most powerful of the elements which have entered into the formation of moral feeling, having almost always been governed either… — 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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