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Letter "J" » John Stuart Mill Quotes
«The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions,
Silence
| Keywords:
clearer, collision, collisions, deprived, deprived of, dissent, dissenting opinion, exchanging, existing, Great A, human error, Human perception, impression, livelier, peculiar, perception, posterity, produced, robbing, silencing
«Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called»
«The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Liberty
| Keywords:
individual liberty, nuisance, nuisances, thus far
«Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and courage which it contained.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Courage,
Genius
| Keywords:
abounded, abounding, abounding in, abounding with, abounds, abound in, contained, Eccentricities, eccentricity, proportional, vigor
«All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain.»
«All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
All Good Things, fruits
«I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.»
«Language is the light of the mind»
«Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| About:
Opinions
| Keywords:
palpable, popular opinion, subjects, The Whole Truth
«Every great movement must experience three stages: ridicule, discussion, adoption»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
adoption, discussion, ridicule, stages
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