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A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.
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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Islington
J. S. Mill
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No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
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It would not be easy even for an unbeliever, to find a better translation of the rule of virtue from the abstract into the concrete, than to endeavor so to live that Christ would approve our life.
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The triumph of the Confederacy... would be a victory for the powers of evil which would give courage to the enemies of progress and damp the sprits of its friends all over the civilized world... [The American Civil War] is destined to be a turning point, for good or evil, of the course of human affairs.
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Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people are conservative.
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Among a people without fellow-feeling, especially if they read and speak different languages, the united public opinion, necessary to the working of the representative government, cannot exist.
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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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Belief, thus, in the supernatural, great as are the services which it rendered in the early stages of human development, cannot be considered to be any longer required, either for enabling us to know what is right and wrong in social morality, or for supplying us with motives to do right and to abstain from wrong.
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Each undervalues that part of the materials of thought with which he is not familiar.
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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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Money is a machine for doing quickly and commodiously what would be done, though less quickly and commodiously, without it.
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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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All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Whatever helps to shape the human being - to make the individual what he is, or hinder him from being what he is not - is part of his education.
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That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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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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