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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.

John Stuart Mill

In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Affirmation Correct Debate Intellectual Wrong
All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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Action Existence People Value
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Advancement Custom Human Obstacle
The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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Compose Individual State Worth
The price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
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Courage Human Intellectual Mindset Pay Price
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse.
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Moral State Ugly War Worst
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
Let 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.
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Conscience Form Goodness Harm Man Oneself
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
The pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
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Ability Action Himself Pupil Work
We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours.
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Act Exercise Ourselves Right Way
In all the more advanced communities the great majority of things are worse done by the intervention of government than the individuals most interested in the matter would do them, or cause them to be done, if left to themselves.
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Community Government Interesting Reason Worst
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
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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Aspect Examination Ideas Ourselves Support Truth
Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Desire Liberty Oneself

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