Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.

—John Stuart Mill

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About John Stuart Mill

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John Stuart Mill (20 May 1806 – 7 May 1873) was an English philosopher, political economist, and politician. He was a paradigmatic philosopher of liberalism and has been described as "the most influential English-speaking philosopher of the nineteenth century" by the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. He conceived of liberty as...

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But society has now fairly got the better of individuality; and the danger which threatens human nature is not the excess, but the deficiency, of personal impulses and preferences.

—John Stuart Mill

War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other's children.

—John Stuart Mill

One person with a belief is equal to a force of 99 who have only interests.

—John Stuart Mill

Pain makes man think. Thought makes man wise. Wisdom makes life endurable.

—John Stuart Mill

A person may cause evil to others not only by his action but by his inaction, and in either case he is justly accountable to them for the injury.

—John Stuart Mill

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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to begin with doubts he shall end in certainties.

—Francis Bacon

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When in doubt tell the truth.

A person who says, "I'm enlightened," probably isn't.

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I respect faith, but doubt is what gets you an education.

—Wilson Mizner

Our doubts are traitors,
And make us lose the good we oft might win
By fearing to attempt.

—William Shakespeare

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