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If the universe had a beginning, its beginning, by the very condition of the cases, was supernatural the laws of Nature cannot account for their own origin.
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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Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.
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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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A person's taste is as much his own peculiar concern as his opinion or his purse.
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Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself.
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All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
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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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Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
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A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.
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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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Education makes a man a more intelligent shoemaker, if that be his occupation, but not by teaching him how to make shoes it does so by the mental exercise it gives, and the habits it impresses.
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