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In this age, the mere example ...

In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny of opinion is such as to make eccentricity a reproach, it is desirable, in order to break through that tyranny, that people should be eccentric.

John Mill 395 quotes

There is a very real evil cons...

There is a very real evil consequent on ascribing supernatural origin to the received maxilms of morality. That origin consecrates the whole of them and protects them from being discussed or criticized.

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Let not any one pacify his con...

Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing.

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Photography is a brief complic...

Photography is a brief complicity between foresight and luck.

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Hardly any original thoughts o...

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.

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What is contrary to women's na...

What is contrary to women's nature to do, they never will be made to do by simply giving their nature free play.

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A government with all this mas...

A government with all this mass of favours to give or to withhold, however free in name, wields a power of bribery scarcely surpassed by an avowed autocracy, rendering it master of the elections in almost any circumstances but those of rare and extraordinary public excitement.

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The idea that truth always tri...

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.

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Co-operation, like other diffi...

Co-operation, like other difficult things, can be learned only by practice: and to be capable of it in great things, a people must be gradually trained to it in small. Now the whole course of advancing civilization is a series of such training.

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Human existence is girt round ...

Human existence is girt round with mystery: the narrow region of our experience is a small island in the midst of a boundless sea. To add to the mystery, the domain of our earthly existence is not only an island of infinite space, but also in infinite time. The past and the future are alike shrouded from us: we neither know the origin of anything which is, nor its final destination.

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The idea is essentially repuls...

The idea is essentially repulsive, of a society held together only by the relations and feelings arising out of pecuniary interest.

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There is an imaginary circle d...

There is an imaginary circle drawn around every human being, over which no government should be able to step.

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In this age, the man who dares...

In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.

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A [psychological] difficulty i...

A [psychological] difficulty is not an impossibility.

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Induction is a process of infe...

Induction is a process of inference; it proceeds from the known to the unknown.

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To refuse a hearing to an opin...

To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

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There is a tolerably general a...

There is a tolerably general agreement about what a university is not. It is not a place of professional education.

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My father never permitted anyt...

My father never permitted anything which I learnt to degenerate into a mere exercise of memory. He strove to make the understanding not only go along with every step of the teaching but...precede it.

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A state of things in which a l...

A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

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Landlords grow rich in their s...

Landlords grow rich in their sleep without working, risking or economising

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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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