Famous Quotes / John Stuart Mill
61 Quotations by John Stuart Mill
- 21. I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy the ...
- 22. If all mankind minus one, were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, man ...
- 23. If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one tha ...
- 24. Indeed the dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution, is one of those pleasant falsehoods w ...
- 25. Life has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected ...
- 26. Next to selfishness the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory is want of mental cultivatio ...
- 27. No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follo ...
- 28. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- 29. One person with a belief is equal to a force of ninety-nine who have only interests.
- 30. Originality is the one thing unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
- 31. Over one mind and over ones body the individual is sovereign.
- 32. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
- 33. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in the ...
- 34. The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, men ...
- 35. The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
- 36. The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
- 37. The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other th ...
- 38. The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power amon ...
- 39. The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most ...
- 40. The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other ...