John Stuart Mill Quotes
Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
Quotes to Explore
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There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.
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The doctor who applied a stethoscope to my heart was not satisfied. I was told to get my papers with the clerk in the outer hall. I was medically rejected.
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I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.
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He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.
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You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.
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God was satisfied with his own work, and that is fatal.
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I'm a human being, and I get sick.
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The one thing that doesn't abide by majority rule is a person's conscience.
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There is a higher court than courts of justice and that is the court of conscience. It supercedes all other courts.
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Conscience: self-esteem with a halo.
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I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.
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We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.
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I'm never satisfied because I've been always interested in too many things and I always want to do everything at once.
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For small creatures such as we the vastness is bearable only through love.
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I'm never satisfied.
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Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.
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Most of us have very clear memories of the self-critical internal conversation running on in our heads while we were playing poorly, and yet it often seems that we hardly remember noticing it at all while we were playing well.
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Ego says, "Once everything falls into place, I'll feel peace". Spirit says, "Find your peace, and then everything will fall into place".
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I always loved that old song Banks of the Ohio - it was always such a man's song, so I've always wanted to record it.
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Sometimes being fooled by love is worth the price. At least you know you're alive and capable of feeling, even if all you end up with is chest pain.
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Few human creatures would consent to be changed into any of the lower animals for a promise of the fullest allowance of a beast's pleasures; no intelligent human being would consent to be a fool, no instructed person would be an ignoramus, no person of feeling and conscience would be selfish and base, even though they should be persuaded that the fool, the dunce, or the rascal is better satisfied with his lot than they are with theirs.
