Tag: John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

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Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.

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Solitude, in the sense of being often alone, is essential to any depth of meditation or of character and solitude in the presence of natural beauty and grandeur, is the cradle of thought and aspirations which are not only good for the individual, but which society could ill do without.

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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of our time.

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That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the next.

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The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civilized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. His own good, either physical or moral, is not sufficient warrant.

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The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.

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War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.

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