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Next to selfishness, the principal cause which makes life unsatisfactory, is want of mental cultivation.


John Stuart Mills

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JOHN STUART MILL It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfi...
JOHN STUART MILL All social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of si...
JOHN STUART MILL The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals, Utility, or the Greatest-Happiness Principle, h...
JOHN STUART MILL Stupidity is much the same all the world over. A stupid person's notions and feelings may confidentl...
JOHN STUART MILL Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount o...
JOHN STUART MILL It is questionable if all the mechanical inventions yet made have lightened the day's toil of an...
JOHN STUART MILL Though our character is formed by circumstances, our own desires can do much to shape those circumst...
JOHN STUART MILL The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or be...
JOHN STUART MILL I have a hundred times heard him say, that all ages and nations have represented their gods as wicke...
JOHN STUART MILL The form of association, however, which if mankind continue to improve, must be expected in the end ...
JOHN STUART MILL No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
JOHN STUART MILL All students of man and society who possess that first requisite for so difficult a study, a due sen...
JOHN STUART MILL All that has been said of the importance of individuality of character, and diversity in opinions an...
JOHN STUART MILL Wake the power within thee slumbering, trim the plot that's in thy keeping, thou wilt bless the ...
JOHN STUART BLACKIE Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives...
I never ...
JOHN STUART MILL Although it is not true that all conservatives are stupid people, it is true that most stupid people...
JOHN STUART MILL All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take ...
JOHN STUART MILL We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion; and even if ...
JOHN STUART MILL If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-...
JOHN STUART MILL Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentie...
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