Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
JOHN STUART MILL
The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the cause of half their errors.
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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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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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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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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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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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One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
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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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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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I 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.
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