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All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.
John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill
Age: 67 †
Born: 1806
Born: January 1
Died: 1873
Died: January 1
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Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
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Protection, therefore, against the tyranny of the magistrate is not enough there needs protection against the tyranny of the prevailing opinion and feeling, against the tendency of society to impose, by other means than civil penalties, its own ideas and practices as rules of conduct on those who dissent from them.
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In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.
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The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it
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The study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.
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Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
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He who lets the world choose his plan of life for him has need of no other faculty than that of ape-like imitation.
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A people may prefer a free government, but if by momentary discouragement or temporary panic, or a fit of enthusiasm for an individual, they can be induced to lay their liberties at the feet of even a great man, or trust him with powers to subvert their institutions, in all these cases they are unfit for liberty.
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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.
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The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out not any particular manifestation of that principle.
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It often happens that the universal belief of one age of mankind — a belief from which no one was, nor without an extraordinary effort of genius and courage, could at that time be free — becomes to a subsequent age so palpable an absurdity, that the only difficulty then is to imagine how such a thing can ever have appeared credible.
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My father taught me that the question Who made me? cannot be answered, since it immediately suggests the further question, Who made God?
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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