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Mind Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker on record, David Hume: a…
- The guesses which serve to give mental unity and wholeness to a chaos of scattered particulars, are accidents which rarely occur to any minds but…
- The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The…
- Language is the light of the mind
- The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
- Among the facts of the universe to be accounted for, it may be said, is Mind; and it is self evident that nothing can have…
- 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 doctrine called Philosophical Necessity is simply this: that, given the motives which are present to an individual's mind, and given likewise the character and…
- How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
- Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
- The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which…
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- Experience has taught me that those who give their time to the absorbing claims of what is called society, not having leisure to keep up…
- the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be…
- ‎A general State education is a mere contrivance for moulding people to be exactly like one another; and as the mould in which it casts…
- I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicked, in a constantly increasing progression; that…
- It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.
- ...to bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training…
- Those only are happy who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness; on the happiness of others, on the improvement…
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