"God is a word to express, not our……" — John Stuart Mill

"God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them."

— John Stuart Mill

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248 Quotes by John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill has 248 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
So Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we…
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we…
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the…
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed…
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
Human beings are not like sheep; and even sheep are not undistinguishably alike. A man cannot get a coat or…
That a thing is peculiar; is no argument for its being blamable; since the most criminal actions are to a…
The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an…
Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to…
Accordingly, France Had Voltaire, and his school of negative thinkers, and England (or rather Scotland) had the profoundest negative thinker…
It appears, then, to be a condition of a genuinely scientific hypothesis, that it be not destined always to remain…

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I want to express myself in a different way. I have a performing inclination. — Rowan Atkinson
To live life well is to express life poorly; if one expresses life too well, one is living it no… — Gaston Bachelard
Ideally, people find mates with whom they can express both their masculine and feminine sides. — Scott Bakula
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express… — Ansel Adams
I've been singing for six years. I've been in and out of the studios with top producers, but it wasn't… — Tyra Banks
In order for the artist to have a world to express he must first be situated in this world, oppressed… — Charles Baudelaire
I'm less desperate now to express what's inside me, that's true - I act these days because it keeps me… — Emmanuelle Beart
I love fashion, and that's how I express myself. — Victoria Beckham
Art is elemental. Reason alone as it's expressed in the sciences can't be man's complete answer to reality, and it… — Pope Benedict XVI
Excitement was plentiful during my two years' service as a Pony Express rider. — Buffalo Bill
The first trip of the Pony Express was made in ten days - an average of two hundred miles a… — Buffalo Bill
Everyone's entitled to express their political beliefs. I don't presume to tell anybody who to vote for. I am comfortable… — Ben Affleck

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