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Best One Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- 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…
- As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing,…
- The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces,…
- All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion…
- As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good,…
- 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…
- Over one's mind and over one's body the individual is sovereign.
- 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…
- 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…
- Unfortunately for the good sense of mankind, the fact of their fallibility is far from carrying the weight in their practical judgement, which is always…
- Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those…
- 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…
- 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…
- There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else…
- No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to…
- The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth…
- If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in…
- One person with a belief is equal to force of ninety-nine who have only one interest.
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- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
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- I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion. — J. J. Abrams
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- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
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