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.
JOHN STUART MILLThe 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.
More John Stuart Mill Quotes
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The 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.
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Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.
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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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When one’s ideas are not challenged, one’s ability to defend them weakens.
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Liberty consists in doing what one desires.
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Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
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All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
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The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
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As often as a study is cultivated by narrow minds, they will draw from it narrow conclusions.
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Over one’s mind and over one’s body the individual is sovereign.
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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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Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom.
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Language is the light of the mind.
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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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