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Desirable Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings…
- Human beings are no longer born to their place in life...but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve…
- Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
- All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of…
- Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling…
- 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…
- 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…
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