Those only are happy .... who have their minds fixed on some object other than their own happiness,
"a crisis in my mental history
To prevent the weaker members of the community from being preyed upon by innumerable vultures, it was needful that there should be an animal of prey stronger than the rest, commissioned to keep them down. But as the king of vultures would be no less bent upon preying upon the flock than any of the minor harpies, it was indispensable to be in a perpetual attitude of defense against his beak and claws.
John Stuart MillMots clés on-liberty
...over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign".
John Stuart MillНикога не може да бъдем сигурни, че мнението, което се опитваме да задушим, е погрешно; дори да сме сигурни, обаче, самият акт на задушаване пак е зловреден.
John Stuart MillAll social inequalities which have ceased to be considered expedient, assume the character not of simple inexpediency, but of injustice, and appear so tyrannical, that people are apt to wonder how they ever could have been tolerated; forgetful that they themselves perhaps tolerate other inequalities under an equally mistaken notion of expediency, the correction of which would make that which they approve seem quite as monstrous as what they have at last learnt to condemn. The entire history of social improvement has been a series of transitions, by which one custom or institution after another, from being a supposed primary necessity of social existence, has passed into the rank of a universally stigmatised injustice and tyranny. So it has been with the distinctions of slaves and freemen, nobles and serfs, patricians and plebeians; and so it will be, and in part already is, with the aristocracies of colour, race, and sex.
John Stuart MillMots clés philosophy utilitarianism racism sexism social-injustice
The idea that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods, which most experience refutes. History is teeming with instances of truth put down by persecution. If not put down forever, it may be set back for centuries.
John Stuart MillMots clés truth persecution
...the English mode of existence in which everybody acts as if everybody else ( with few, or no exceptions ) was either an enemy or a bore.
John Stuart MillMots clés the-english bores
إنّ المرءَ يستطيعُ أنْ يستنتِجَ _إلى حدٍّ مثيرٍ للسّخريةِ_ نوعَ زوجةِ الشَّخصِ من آرائهِ في النّساءِ بصفةٍ عامّة.
John Stuart MillSuch is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but those recommended to them by their feelings, that multitudes have held the undoubting belief in an Omnipotent Author of Hell, and have nevertheless identified that being with the one best conception they were able to form of perfect goodness.
John Stuart MillOne person with a belief is worth 99 people who have only interests.
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