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"As long as justice and injustice have not terminated their ever 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"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
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"As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
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"All good things which exist are the fruits of originality"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"All desirable things... are desirable either for the pleasure inherent in themselves, or as a means to the promotion of pleasure and the prevention of pain"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"We have a right, also, in various ways, to act upon our unfavorable opinion of anyone, not to the oppression of his individuality, but in the exercise of ours"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
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"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time!"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
John Stuart Mill
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"No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
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"Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread"
John Stuart Mill, Philosopher
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"May you live your life as if the maxim of your actions were to become universal law"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"Live your life as though your every act were to become a universal law"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"It is not necessary that whilst I live I live happily; but it is necessary that so long as I live I should live honourably"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"Intuition and concepts constitute... the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without an intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"Ingratitude is the essence of vileness"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"Immaturity is the incapacity to use one's intelligence without the guidance of another"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"I had therefore to remove knowledge, in order to make room for belief"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"But although all our knowledge begins with experience, it does not follow that it arises from experience"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"All thought must, directly or indirectly, by way of certain characters, relate ultimately to intuitions, and therefore, with us, to sensibility, because in no other way can an object be given to us"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"A categorical imperative would be one which represented an action as objectively necessary in itself, without reference to any other purpose"
Immanuel Kant, Philosopher
Immanuel Kant
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"We only understand that which already is within us"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"To shun one's cross is to make it heavier"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Without passion, man is a mere latent force and possibility, like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man that it forms"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Order is a great person's need and their true well being"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"Action and faith enslave thought, both of them in order not be troubled or inconvenienced by reflection, criticism, and doubt"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
Henri Frederic Amiel
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"To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy"
Henri Frederic Amiel, Philosopher
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