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• It is given to no human being to stereotype a set of truths, and walk safely by their guidance with his mind's eye closed.

  John Stuart Mill

  Eye, Mind, Guidance

  John Bowring, John Stuart Mill (1837). “The London and Westminster Review”, p.349

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• The art of music is good, for the reason, among others, that it produces pleasure; but what proof is it possible to give that pleasure is good? If, then, it is asserted that there is a comprehensive formula, including all things which are in themselves good, and that whatever else is good, is not so as an end, but as a mean, the formula may be accepted or rejected, but is not a subject of what is commonly understood by proof.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Mean, Giving

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Utilitarianism: Mill's Works”, p.3, VM eBooks

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• if any opinion is compelled to silence, that opinion may, for aught we can certainly know, be true. To deny this is to assume our own infallibility.

  John Stuart Mill

  Silence, May, Opinion

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.191, Hackett Publishing

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• Such are the differences among human beings in their sources of pleasure, their susceptibilities of pain, and the operation on them of different physical and moral agencies, that unless there is a corresponding diversity in their modes of life, they neither obtain their fair share of happiness, nor grow up to the mental, moral, and aesthetic stature of which their nature is capable.

  John Stuart Mill

  Growing Up, Pain, Differences

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Greatest Happiness Principle - Utilitarianism, On Liberty & The Subjection of Women: The Principle of the Greatest-Happiness: What Is Utilitarianism (Proofs & Principles), Civil & Social Liberty, Liberty of Thought, Individuality & Individual Freedom, Utilitarian Feminism”, p.148, Madison & Adams

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• There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.

  John Stuart Mill

  Selfish, Doctrine, Would Be

  "Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin".

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• ...there ought to exist the fullest liberty of professing and discussing, as a matter of ethical conviction, any doctrine, however immoral it may be considered.

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Doctrine, May

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.99, John Wiley & Sons

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• I confess that I am not charmed with the ideal of life held out by those who think that the normal state of human beings is that of struggling to get on; that the trampling, crushing, elbowing, and treading on each other's heels, which form the existing type of social life, are the most desirable lot of human beings

  John Stuart Mill

  Crush, Struggle, Thinking

  G. W. Smith, John Stuart Mill (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Critical Assessments”, p.262, Psychology Press

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• There is nothing which an untrained mind shows itself more hopelessly incapable, than in drawing the proper general conclusions from its own experience. And even trained minds, when all their training is on a special subject, and does not extend to the general principles of induction, are only kept right when there are ready opportunities of verifying their inferences by facts.

  John Stuart Mill

  Opportunity, Drawing, Training

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.2782, Madison & Adams

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• If the earth must lose that great portion of its pleasantness which it owes to things that the unlimited increase of wealth and population would extirpate from it, for the mere purpose of enabling it to support a larger, but not a happier or a better population, I sincerely hope, for the sake of posterity, that they will be content to be stationary, long before necessity compels them to it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Long, Support, Earth

  John Stuart Mill (1848). “Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy”, p.317

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• The sole evidence it is possible to produce that anything is desirable, is that people do actually desire it.

  John Stuart Mill

  People, Desire, Produce

  1863 Utilitarianism, ch.4.

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• Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?

  John Stuart Mill

  Religion, Might, Deities

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.114, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sides, Argument, Truth Is

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.38, Cambridge University Press

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• Complete liberty of contradicting and disproving our opinion, is the very condition which justifies us in assuming its truth for purposes of action.

  John Stuart Mill

  Liberty, Purpose, Action

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Memories, Father, Teaching

  "Autobiography". Book by John Stuart Mill, 1960.

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• Laws and systems of polity always begin by recognizing the relations they find already existing between individuals.

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Individual, Relation

  John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.412, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Society can and does execute its own mandates: and if it issues wrong mandates instead of right, or any mandates at all in things with it ought not to meddle, it practices a social tyranny more formidable than many kinds of political oppression, since, though not usually upheld by such extreme penalties, it leaves fewer means of escape, penetrating much more deeply into the details of life, and enslaving the soul itself.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Details Of Life, Practice

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.189, e-artnow

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• Miracles have no claim whatever to the character of historical facts and are wholly invalid as evidence of any revelation.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Miracle, Historical

  John Stuart Mill (1874). “Three Essays on Religion”, p.239, New York : H. Holt

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• As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.

  John Stuart Mill

  War, Charity, Matter

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (2015). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.227, University of Chicago Press

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• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Thinking, Fearless

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “JOHN STUART MILL - Ultimate Collection: Works on Philosophy, Politics & Economy (Including Memoirs & Essays): Autobiography, Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive and More”, p.215, Madison & Adams

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• Whether moral and social phenomena are really exceptions to the general certainty and uniformity of the course of nature; and how far the methods, by which so many of the laws of the physical world have been numbered among truths irrevocably acquired and universally assented to, can be made instrumental to the gradual formation of a similar body of received doctrine in moral and political science.

  John Stuart Mill

  Nature, Science, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill: Utilitarianism, The Subjection of Women, On Liberty, Principles of Political Economy, A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive, Memoirs…”, p.1092, e-artnow

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• The United States is no more a Christian nation because most of its citizens are Christians than it is a 'white' nation because most of its citizens are white. We are Americans because we practice democracy and believe in republican government, not because we practice revealed religion and believe in Bible-based government.

  John Stuart Mill

  Christian, Believe, Government

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• There are no means of finding what either one person or many can do, but by trying - and no means by which anyone else can discover for them what it is for their happiness to do or leave undone

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Trying, Undone

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “The Subjection of Women”, p.51, John Stuart Mill

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• Trade is a social act.

  John Stuart Mill

  Business, Social, Trade

  John Stuart Mill, G. W. Smith (1998). “John Stuart Mill's Social and Political Thought: Freedom”, p.107, Taylor & Francis

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• When the land is cultivated entirely by the spade and no horses are kept, a cow is kept for every three acres of land.

  John Stuart Mill

  Horse, Land, Agriculture

  John Stuart Mill (1871). “Priciples of POlitical Economy”, p.335

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• A man of clear ideas errs grievously if he imagines that whatever is seen confusedly does not exist; it belongs to him, when he meets with such a thing, to dispel the midst, and fix the outlines of the vague form which is looming through it.

  John Stuart Mill

  Persistence, Men, Ideas

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.65, John Wiley & Sons

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