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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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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God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that it interferes wrongly, and in the wrong place.
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The feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
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Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.
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I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.
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... All ideas need to be heard, because each idea contains one aspect of the truth. By examining that aspect, we add to our own idea of the truth. Even ideas that have no truth in them whatsoever are useful because by disproving them, we add support to our own ideas.
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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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The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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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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There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
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Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
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