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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.

John Stuart Mill

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Language is the light of the mind.
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Language Light Mindset
There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.
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Circle Government Imagination Step
It 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.
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Better Different Fools Human Opinion Question Satisfaction
All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.
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Assumption Discussion Fall Silence
The love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
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Eternal Liberty Love Power
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
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Average General Kind Man World
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
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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Advancement Custom Despotism Human
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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Belief Equality Interest Person
All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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Existence Goodness Object Original Result
The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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Influence Moral Salutation Woman
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
The human faculties of perception, judgment, discriminative feeling, mental activity, and even moral preference, are exercised only in making a choice. He who does anything because it is the custom, makes no choice.
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Activity Choice Discrimination Faculty Human Mental
Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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Happiness Philosophy Question
Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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Finding Freedom Liberty Lying Right

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