Author of quotes: John Stuart Mill

If the truth does not challenge, it can degenerate into dogma or prejudice



Explanation of the quote:

From an essay by Isaiah Berlin, "John Stuart mill and the purpose of life"
https://vtoraya-literatura.com/pdf/berlin_chetyre_esse_o_svobode_1992__o...

One believe is worth ninety nine investigators.

It's better to be unhappy and wise than a fool satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; because if the fool or pig only know his side of the subject, the wise man knows all sides of it. And so it is better to err with Plato than to be right with them.

Logic is the great pursuer dark and sloppy thinking; it scatters the mist that hides from us our ignorance and makes us think that we understand the subject, at a time when we don't understand it.

No one can be a great thinker if he, as a thinker, does not set himself above all the duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.

Genius can breathe freely only in an atmosphere of freedom.

... Ethics can be defined as follows: such rules to guide human actions, through the observance of which all mankind are delivered existence, the most free from suffering and the richest enjoyment, and not only mankind, but, as far as is allowed by the nature of things, and every creature, which only has a sense.

The only goal that justifies the intervention of some people, individually or collectively, to the activities of other people is self-defense. To exercise authority over a member of a civilized community against his will is only permitted to prevent harm to others.

Ask yourself if you're happy, and you cease to be happy.

In our age of luxury, we have reached the point that hiring strangers to commit to us for good.

Was there ever such a rule that would not seem natural to those who possessed them?

His wife, leading her husband forward, pushing him back certainly.

Marriage is the only form of slavery permitted by law.

People don't want to be rich; people want to be richer than others.