Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
JOHN STUART MILLI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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Since the general or prevailing opinion on any subject is rarely or never the whole truth, it is only by the collision of adverse opinion that the remainder of the truth has any chance of being supplied.
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Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivation.
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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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So 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.
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In the long-run, the best proof of a good character is good actions.
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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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The spirit of improvement is not always a spirit of liberty, for it may aim at forcing improvements on an unwilling people.
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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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Whatever crushes individuality is despotism.
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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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I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
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A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
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How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of great minds is agreeing in the opinion of small minds?
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A great statesman is he who knows when to depart from traditions, as well as when to adhere to them.
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However unwillingly a person who has a strong opinion may admit the possibility that his opinion may be false, he ought to be moved by the consideration that, however true it may be, if it is not fully, frequently, and fearlessly discussed, it will be held as a dead dogma, not a living truth.
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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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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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Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.
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Human beings are no longer born to their place in life…but are free to employ their faculties and such favorable chances as offer, to achieve the lot which may appear to them as desirable.
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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.
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To mistake money for wealth, is the same sort of error as to mistake the highway which may be the easiest way of getting to your house or lands, for the house and lands themselves.
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Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow.
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In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
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