Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
JOHN STUART MILLNext to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
JOHN STUART MILLAll silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
JOHN STUART MILLTruth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
JOHN STUART MILLNo great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
JOHN STUART MILLSo Long as we do not harm others we should be free to think, speak, act, & live as we see fit, without molestation from individuals, law, or gov’t.
JOHN STUART MILLThe study of science teaches young men to think, while study of the classics teaches them to express thought.
JOHN STUART MILLThe general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
JOHN STUART MILLA state which dwarfs its men, in order that they may be more docile instruments in its hands even for beneficial purposes–will find that with small men no great thing can really be accomplished.
JOHN STUART MILLLet not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
JOHN STUART MILLWhen one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
JOHN STUART MILLHow can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
JOHN STUART MILLAsk yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILLIt is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied. And if the fool, or the pig, are of a different opinion, it is because they only know their own side of the question.
JOHN STUART MILLMen do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
JOHN STUART MILLLiberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
JOHN STUART MILLThose only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
JOHN STUART MILL