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Been Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by…
- Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
- It is a bitter thought, how different a thing the Christianity of the world might have been, if the Christian faith had been adopted as…
- 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…
- In the human mind, one-sidedness has always been the rule, and many-sidedness the exception. Hence, even in revolutions of opinion, one part of the truth…
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its…
- Christian morality (so called) has all the characters of a reaction; it is, in great part, a protest against Paganism. Its ideal is negative rather…
- It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- A person whose desires and impulses are his own—are the expression of his own nature, as it has been developed and modified by his own…
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
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