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• Hardly any original thoughts on mental or social subjects ever make their way among mankind or assume their proper importance in the minds even of their inventors, until aptly selected words or phrases have as it were nailed them down and held them fast.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mind, Phrases, Original Thought

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.426

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• The real advantage which truth has, consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it

  John Stuart Mill

  Spiritual, Real, Understanding

  John Stuart Mill (1913). “On Liberty: The philosophical work that changed society for ever”, p.42, Harriman House Limited

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be booted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Atheism, Principles

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• To discover to the world something which deeply concerns it, and of which it was previously ignorant; to prove to it that it had been mistaken on some vital point of temporal or spiritual interest, is as important a service as a human being can render to his fellow creatures.

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  Spiritual, Ignorant, Important

  John Stuart Mill (1859). “On Liberty”, p.51

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• The concessions of the privileged to the unprivileged are seldom brought about by any better motive than the power of the unprivileged to extort them.

  John Stuart Mill

  Advantage, Motive, Concessions

  John Stuart Mill, Harriet Taylor Mill (1970). “Essays on Sex Equality”, p.214, University of Chicago Press

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• Though it is only in a very imperfect state of the world's arrangements that anyone can best serve the happiness of others by the absolute sacrifice of his own, yet, so long as the world is in that imperfect state, I fully acknowledge that the readiness to make such a sacrifice is the highest virtue which can be found in man.

  John Stuart Mill

  Sacrifice, Men, Long

  John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). “The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill”, p.107, Hackett Publishing

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• The ends of scientific classification are best answered, when the objects are formed into groups respecting which a greater number of general propositions can be made, and those propositions more important, than could be made respecting any other groups into which the same things could be distributed. ... A classification thus formed is properly scientific or philosophical, and is commonly called a Natural, in contradistinction to a Technical or Artificial, classification or arrangement.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophical, Science, Numbers

  "The Collected Works of John Stuart Mill".

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• The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.

  John Stuart Mill

  Philosophy, Inspire, Intellectual

  John Stuart Mill (2009). “Dissertations and Discussions”, p.201, Cosimo, Inc.

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• The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us.

  John Stuart Mill

  Giving, Challenges, Done

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.

  John Stuart Mill

  Power, Names, Government

  John Stuart Mill (2012). “On Liberty”, p.55, Courier Corporation

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• The great majority of those who speak of perfectibility as a dream, do so because they feel that it is one which would afford them no pleasure if it were realized.

  John Stuart Mill

  Dream, Majority, Speak

  'Speech on Perfectibility' (1828) in 'Autobiography' (ed. Harold J. Laski, 1924) p. 290

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• The will of the people, moreover, practically means the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority; type people, consequently, may desire to oppress a part of their number; and precautions are as much needed against this as against any other abuse of power.

  John Stuart Mill

  Mean, Numbers, People

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• The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.

  John Stuart Mill

  Strong, Fear, Real

  Alexander Bain, John Stuart Mill, James Mill, Andrew Findlater, George Grote (1982). “Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind”, Georg Olms Verlag

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• Customs are made for customary circumstances, and customary characters.

  John Stuart Mill

  Character, Made, Circumstances

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.34

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• We often hear the teachers of all creeds lamenting the difficulty of keeping up in the minds of believers a lively apprehension of the truth which they nominally recognize, so that it may penetrate the feelings, and acquire a real mastery over the conduct.... When it has come to be a hereditary creed, and to be received passively, not actively ... there is a progressive tendency to forget all of the belief except the formularies ... until it almost ceases to connect itself at all with the inner life of the human being.

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  Teacher, Real, Feelings

  Source: www.usconstitution.net

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• Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.

  John Stuart Mill

  Equality, Tolerance, Suffering

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.27

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• No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so by force of property; they are still chained to a place, to an occupation, and to conformity with the will of an employer, and debarred by the accident of birth to both the enjoyments, and from the mental and moral advantages, which others inherit without exertion and independently of desert. That this is an evil equal to almost any of those against which mankind have hitherto struggles, the poor are not wrong in believing.

  John Stuart Mill

  Believe, Struggle, Law

  John Stuart Mill (2016). “Socialism: Mill's Works”, p.5, VM eBooks

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• Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.

  John Stuart Mill

  Teacher, Sleep, Enemy

  John Stuart Mill (2008). “Utilitarianism and On Liberty: Including 'Essay on Bentham' and Selections from the Writings of Jeremy Bentham and John Austin”, p.120, John Wiley & Sons

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• Men and governments must act to the best of their ability. There is no such thing as absolute certainty but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.

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  Destiny, Men, Purpose

  John Stuart Mill (1865). “On Liberty”, p.11

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• If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.

  John Stuart Mill

  Science, Two, Causes

  John Stuart Mill (1858). “A System of Logic, Ratiocinative and Inductive: Being a Connected View of the Principles of Evidence and the Methods of Scientific Investigation”, p.224

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• It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.

  John Stuart Mill

  Country, Countries Of The World, Important

  John Stuart Mill, Jonathan Riley (1998). “Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism”, p.127, Oxford University Press, USA

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• In a world in which there is so much to interest, so much to enjoy, and so much also to correct and improve, everyone who has this moderate amount of moral and intellectual requisites is capable of an existence which may be called enviable; and unless such a person, through bad laws, or subjection to the will of others, is denied the liberty to use the sources of happiness within his reach, he will not fail to find the enviable existence

  John Stuart Mill

  Law, Intellectual, Liberty

  John Stuart Mill (2017). “Utilitarianism”, p.13, Coventry House Publishing

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• Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.

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  Government, Barbarians, Improvement

  John Stuart Mill (1989). “J. S. Mill: 'On Liberty' and Other Writings”, p.13, Cambridge University Press

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• There is a limit to the legitimate interference of collective opinion with individual independence: and to find that limit, and maintain it against encroachment, is as indispensable to a good condition of human affairs, as protection against political despotism.

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  Political, Independence, Limits

  John Stuart Mill (1864). “On Liberty”, p.14

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• Eloquence is heard; poetry is overheard ... All poetry is of the nature of the soliloquy.

  John Stuart Mill

  Art, Poetry, Heard

  John Stuart Mill (1969). “Autobiography, and Other Writings”

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