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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill) (May 20 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May_20) 1806 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1806) – May 8 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May_8) 1873 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1873)), also known as J.S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utilitarianism).
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1 Sourced (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Sourced)
1.1 System of Logic (1843) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#System_of_Logic_.281843.29)
1.2 On Liberty (1859) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_.281859.29)
1.2.1 Ch. I: Introductory (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._I:_Introductory)
1.2.2 Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._II:_Of_the_Liberty_of_Thought _and_Discussion)
1.2.3 Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._III:_Of_Individuality.2C_As_O ne_of_the_Elements_of_Well-Being)
1.2.4 Ch. IV: Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._IV:_Of_the_Limits_to_the_Auth ority_of_Society_over_the_Individual)
1.2.5 Ch. V: Applications (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._V:_Applications)
1.3 On Representative Government (1861) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Representative_Government_.281 861.29)
1.4 Utilitarianism (1861) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Utilitarianism_.281861.29)
1.5 The Subjection of Women (1869) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#The_Subjection_of_Women_.281869.2 9)
1.6 Autobiography (1873) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Autobiography_.281873.29)
2 Quotes about Mill (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Quotes_about_Mill)
3 Misattributed (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Misattributed)
4 External links (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#External_links)
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, p. 36.
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Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels.
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The perception of distance by the eye, which seems so like intuition, is thus, in reality, an inference grounded on experience; an inference, too, which we learn to make; and which we make with more and more correctness as our experience increases; though in familiar cases it takes place, so rapidly as to appear exactly on a par with those perceptions of sight which are really intuitive, our perceptions of colour.
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A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.
"The Spirit of the Age, I", Examiner (9 January 1831), p. 20 <small>Full text online (http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/256/50650)</small>
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 intellectualpower, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them.
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from this would be to nourish the worst intellectual habit of all, that of not finding, and not looking for, certainty in any teacher. But the teacher himself should not be held to any creed; nor should the question be whether his own opinions are the true ones, but whether he is well instructed in those of other people, and, in enforcing his own, states the arguments for all conflicting opinions fairly.
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
Both in England and on the Continent a graduated property tax (l'impôt progressif) has been advocated, on the avowed ground that the state should use the instrument of taxation as a means of mitigating the inequalities of wealth. I am as desirous as any one that means should be taken to diminish those inequalities, but not so as to relieve the prodigal at the expense of the prudent.To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbours. It is not the fortunes which are earned, but those which are unearned, that it is for the public good to place under limitation.
Principles of Political Economy (http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP64.html) (1848)
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
Principles of Political Economy (1848), Chapter XI, §13.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated theirever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
"The Contest in America," Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868), vol.1 p. 26
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pakington,_1st_Baron_Hampton) (May 31, 1866); this seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, 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, too high to be an object of sense. The meaning of all general, and especially of all abstract terms, became in this way enveloped in a mystical base...
note to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (http://books.google.com/books?id=GxIuAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+mill&ei=jsFoR7yAOYfQiwHEzdVv&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA5,M1) (1829) by James Mill, edited with additional notes by John Stuart Mill (1869)
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
Cited in James Huneker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Huneker), Egoists: A Book of Supermen (New York: 1909), p. 367
It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.
J. S. Mill, Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical, Volume 2 (http://books.google.gr/books?id=FyfPAAAAMAAJ&dq=), H. Holt, 1864, p. 11.
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John Stuart Mill
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Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.
John Stuart Mill (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill) (May 20 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May_20) 1806 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1806) – May 8 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/May_8) 1873 (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/1873)), also known as J.S. Mill, was an English political philosopher and economist who was an advocate of utilitarianism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/utilitarianism).
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1 Sourced (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Sourced)
1.1 System of Logic (1843) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#System_of_Logic_.281843.29)
1.2 On Liberty (1859) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Liberty_.281859.29)
1.2.1 Ch. I: Introductory (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._I:_Introductory)
1.2.2 Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._II:_Of_the_Liberty_of_Thought _and_Discussion)
1.2.3 Ch. III: Of Individuality, As One of the Elements of Well-Being (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._III:_Of_Individuality.2C_As_O ne_of_the_Elements_of_Well-Being)
1.2.4 Ch. IV: Of the Limits to the Authority of Society over the Individual (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._IV:_Of_the_Limits_to_the_Auth ority_of_Society_over_the_Individual)
1.2.5 Ch. V: Applications (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Ch._V:_Applications)
1.3 On Representative Government (1861) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#On_Representative_Government_.281 861.29)
1.4 Utilitarianism (1861) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Utilitarianism_.281861.29)
1.5 The Subjection of Women (1869) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#The_Subjection_of_Women_.281869.2 9)
1.6 Autobiography (1873) (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Autobiography_.281873.29)
2 Quotes about Mill (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Quotes_about_Mill)
3 Misattributed (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#Misattributed)
4 External links (http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/John_Stuart_Mill#External_links)
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Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.
Inaugural Address Delivered to the University of St. Andrews, Feb. 1st 1867, London: Longmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, p. 36.
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Whatever is known to us by consciousness, is known beyond possibility of question. What one sees or feels, whether bodily or mentally, one cannot but be sure that one sees or feels.
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The perception of distance by the eye, which seems so like intuition, is thus, in reality, an inference grounded on experience; an inference, too, which we learn to make; and which we make with more and more correctness as our experience increases; though in familiar cases it takes place, so rapidly as to appear exactly on a par with those perceptions of sight which are really intuitive, our perceptions of colour.
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A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.
Whatever we may think or affect to think of the present age, we cannot get out of it; we must suffer with its sufferings, and enjoy with its enjoyments; we must share in its lot, and, to be either useful or at ease, we must even partake its character.
"The Spirit of the Age, I", Examiner (9 January 1831), p. 20 <small>Full text online (http://oll.libertyfund.org/title/256/50650)</small>
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 intellectualpower, and to inspire the intensest love of truth: and this without a particle of regard to the results to which the exercise of that power may lead, even though it should conduct the pupil to opinions diametrically opposite to those of his teachers. We say this, not because we think opinions unimportant, but because of the immense importance which we attach to them; for in proportion to the degree of intellectual power and love of truth which we succeed in creating, is the certainty that (whatever may happen in any one particular instance) in the aggregate of instances true opinions will be the result; and intellectual power and practical love of truth are alike impossible where the reasoner is shown his conclusions, and informed beforehand that he is expected to arrive at them.
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
We are not so absurd as to propose that the teacher should not set forth his own opinions as the true ones and exert his utmost powers to exhibit their truth in the strongest light. To abstain from this would be to nourish the worst intellectual habit of all, that of not finding, and not looking for, certainty in any teacher. But the teacher himself should not be held to any creed; nor should the question be whether his own opinions are the true ones, but whether he is well instructed in those of other people, and, in enforcing his own, states the arguments for all conflicting opinions fairly.
"Civilization," London and Westminster Review (April 1836)
Both in England and on the Continent a graduated property tax (l'impôt progressif) has been advocated, on the avowed ground that the state should use the instrument of taxation as a means of mitigating the inequalities of wealth. I am as desirous as any one that means should be taken to diminish those inequalities, but not so as to relieve the prodigal at the expense of the prudent.To tax the larger incomes at a higher percentage than the smaller is to lay a tax on industry and economy; to impose a penalty on people for having worked harder and saved more than their neighbours. It is not the fortunes which are earned, but those which are unearned, that it is for the public good to place under limitation.
Principles of Political Economy (http://www.econlib.org/library/Mill/mlP64.html) (1848)
Since the state must necessarily provide subsistence for the criminal poor while undergoing punishment, not to do the same for the poor who have not offended is to give a premium on crime.
Principles of Political Economy (1848), Chapter XI, §13.
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. When a people are used as mere human instruments for firing cannon or thrusting bayonets, in the service and for the selfish purposes of a master, such war degrades a people. A war to protect other human beings against tyrannical injustice; a war to give victory to their own ideas of right and good, and which is their own war, carried on for an honest purpose by their free choice, — is often the means of their regeneration. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. As long as justice and injustice have not terminated theirever-renewing fight for ascendancy in the affairs of mankind, human beings must be willing, when need is, to do battle for the one against the other.
"The Contest in America," Fraser’s Magazine (February 1862); later published in Dissertations and Discussions (1868), vol.1 p. 26
I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it.
John Stuart Mill, in a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pakington,_1st_Baron_Hampton) (May 31, 1866); this seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.
The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or thing, 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, too high to be an object of sense. The meaning of all general, and especially of all abstract terms, became in this way enveloped in a mystical base...
note to Analysis of the Phenomena of the Human Mind (http://books.google.com/books?id=GxIuAAAAIAAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=james+mill&ei=jsFoR7yAOYfQiwHEzdVv&ie=ISO-8859-1#PPA5,M1) (1829) by James Mill, edited with additional notes by John Stuart Mill (1869)
How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?
Cited in James Huneker (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Huneker), Egoists: A Book of Supermen (New York: 1909), p. 367
It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.
J. S. Mill, Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical, Volume 2 (http://books.google.gr/books?id=FyfPAAAAMAAJ&dq=), H. Holt, 1864, p. 11.
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Not so much as an all encompassing institutionalized doctrine but rather as a guide , especially in regards as how to handle the disaster obama has created , promoted and ever so greatly enlarged.Tyr