"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds……" — John Stuart Mill
"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of."
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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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One may gain political and social independence, but if one is a slave to his passions and desires, one cannot…
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