The object of universities is not to make skillful lawyers, physicians or engineers. It is to make capable and cultivated human beings.
JOHN STUART MILLOver one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
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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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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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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 perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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Men do not desire to be rich, but to be richer than other men.
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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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A profound conviction raises a man above the feeling of ridicule.
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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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The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
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Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness; wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
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The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
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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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There is one plain rule of life. Try thyself unweariedly till thou findest the highest thing thou art capable of doing, faculties and outward circumstances being both duly considered, and then do it.
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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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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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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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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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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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Stupidity is much the same all the world over.
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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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A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.
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Liberty lies in the rights of that person whose views you find most odious.
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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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Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption.
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