John Stuart Mill on object
John Stuart Mill98 quotes“The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.”
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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency of the inward forces which make it a living thing.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill To bring a child into existence without a fair prospect of being able, not only to provide food for its body, but instruction and training for its mind is a moral crime, both against the unfortunate offspring and against society.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
John Stuart MillJohn Stuart Mill The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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