In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
JOHN STUART MILLLanguage is the light of the mind.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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The moral influence of woman over man is almost always salutary.
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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.
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With equality of experience and of general faculties, a woman usually sees much more than a man of what is immediately before her.
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Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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It is not because men’s desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
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Those only are happy (I thought) who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness.
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All that makes existence valuable to any one depends on the enforcement of restraints upon the actions of other people.
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The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
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The worth of the state, in the long run, is the worth of the individuals composing it.
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The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
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In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to himself, and is therefore capable of being more valuable to others.
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Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
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All political revolutions, not affected by foreign conquest, originate in moral revolutions. The subversion of established institutions is merely one consequence of the previous subversion of established opinions.
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