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«Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.»
«All action is for the sake of some end; and rules of action, it seems natural to suppose, must take their whole character and color from the end to which they are subservient.»
«Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.»
«Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.»
«No stronger case can be shown for prohibiting anything which is regarded as a personal immorality, than is made out for suppressing these practices in the eyes of those who regard them as impieties; and unless we are willing to adopt the logic of per»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
impieties, impiety, prohibiting, suppressing
«A philosopher is there to disturb the indolence of the mind»
«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»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
deficiency, impulses, individuality, preferences
«Liberty consists in doing what one desires»
«Among the works of man, which human life is rightly employed in perfecting, the first in importance surely is man himself»
«If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilization, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a nec»
Author: John Stuart Mill
(Economist, Logician, Philosopher)
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Civilization
| Keywords:
co-ordinate, coordinate, coordinated, coordinates, coordinating, designate, designated, designates, essentials
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