"Among the facts of the universe to be……" — John Stuart Mill
"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 produced Mind but Mind."
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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill has 248 quotes on this site.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
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What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
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Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
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Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
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That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
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Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
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Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
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It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…
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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…
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At the beginning, ballet accounted for at least two hours out of six hours of my daily training session. Later…
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The visible imperfections of hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or…
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My son, a perfect little boy of five years and three months, had ended his earthly life. You can never…
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No doubt [women of faith in the past] were reproached for His name's sake, and accounted mad women; but they…
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My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my…
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
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In so far as such developments utilise the natural energy running to waste, as in water power, they may be…
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Much of our waste problem is to be accounted for by the intentional flimsiness and unrepairability of the labor-savers and…
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The constitution of human nature" teaches us not to expect "that the persons, entrusted with the administration of the affairs…
— Alexander Hamilton
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[W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we…
— David Attenborough
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Whoever has overthrown an existing law of custom has always first been accounted a bad man: but when, as did…
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More than 10,000 sightings have been reported, the majority of which cannot be accounted for by any 'scientific' explanation. .…
— Hugh Dowding, 1st Baron Dowding
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