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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, but a tree,…
- Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or a pair oboots to fit…
- The validity of all the Inductive Methods depends on the assumption that every event, or the beginning of every phenomenon, must have some cause; some…
- All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
- And it is not difficult to show, by abundant instances, that to extend the bounds of what may be called moral police, until it encroaches…
- Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are…
- Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
- Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidently be inferred from those which prevail in the…
- The natural tendency of representative government, as of modern civilisation, is towards collective mediocrity: and this tendency is increased by all reductions and extensions of…
- On religion in particular, the time appears to me to have come, when it is a duty of all who, being qualified in point of…
- There is no 'one-size-fits-all' way to build an audience.
- It must be granted that in every syllogism, considered as an argument to prove the conclusion, there is a petitio principii. When we say, All…
- All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
- All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that…
- To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing…
- In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in…
- A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by…
- [I] put the question directly to myself: "Suppose that all your objects in life were realized; that all the changes in institutions and opinions which…
- The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.
- If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate…
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