Language is the light of the mind.
JOHN STUART MILLLanguage is the light of the mind.
JOHN STUART MILLWhat distinguishes the majority of men from the few is their inability to act according to their beliefs.
JOHN STUART MILLThe price paid for intellectual pacification is the sacrifice of the entire moral courage of the human mind.
JOHN STUART MILLI did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman 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.
JOHN STUART MILLThe love of power and the love of liberty are in eternal antagonism.
JOHN STUART MILLLandlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising.
JOHN STUART MILLThe pupil who is never required to do what he cannot do, never does what he can do.
JOHN STUART MILLThe liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
JOHN STUART MILLNo slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILLHuman 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.
JOHN STUART MILLThere is the greatest difference between presuming an opinion to be true, because, with every opportunity for contesting it, it has not been refuted, and assuming its truth for the purpose of not permitting its refutation.
JOHN STUART MILLThe idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
JOHN STUART MILLThe individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
JOHN STUART MILLTo understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
JOHN STUART MILLOriginality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
JOHN STUART MILL