John Stuart Mill Quotes

A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

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• This process is alchemy: its founder is the smith Vulcan.

  

  Paracelsus
  • Process
  • Alchemy
  • Smith

• I'd want to read the stories that I'd written, I'd want to show the drawings that I made. That was just purely natural. So I knew I wanted to go into the arts in some way and that I'd want to show that work in some way.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • Work
  • Want
  • Just

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• Humans can make friends easily if they are open to it and are interested in other people.

  

  Dana Perino
  • People
  • Friends
  • Open

• There's a very different kind of psychology going on in the fashion scene than in art. When artists connect to a system because they want to make a living, it's their own choice. In fashion, designers don't have that choice.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Art
  • Fashion

• Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.

  

  Malcolm Forbes
  • Mind
  • Education
  • Purpose

• When Geoff Ramsey and Jack Pattillo started 'Achievement Hunter,' we expanded heavily into 'let's play'-style gaming videos and have since expanded with a massive roster of gaming talent and multiple channels dedicated just to gaming videos.

  

  Burnie Burns
  • Style
  • Achievement

• I stand firm behind the belief that, for me, songwriting isn't something that I do or command, it happens to me. I can either choose to stop and acknowledge it, or put it off and hope that it won't fade away. 'That Wasn't Me' is no exception - it came together more quickly than any other song I have ever constructed on my own.

  

  Brandi Carlile
  • Together
  • Hope
  • Song

• I wouldn't record any song that I didn't like.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Song
  • Records

• Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Music
  • Words
  • Feels

• I like Nine Inch Nails, and I like hip-hop.

  

  Axl Rose Guns N' Roses
  • Hip Hop
  • Nine Inch Nails

• And so for me there is no sting of death, And so the grave has lost its victory. It is but crossing-with abated breath And white, set face-a little strip of sea To find the loved ones waiting on the shore, More beautiful, more precious than before.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Beautiful
  • Waiting
  • Victory

• I'll let criticism spoil breakfast, but I don't let it affect my lunch.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • Criticism
  • Breakfast
  • Spoil

• In some small field each child should attain, within the limited range of its experience and observation, the power to draw a justly limited inference from observed facts.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Small

• Wisdom, thoroughly learned, will never be forgotten.

  

  Pythagoras
  • Wisdom
  • Learned
  • Forgotten

• My very first book was a games collection of Anatoly Karpov. On the whole I was attracted by positonal play with some tactics, and already then I was aiming for universality.

  

  Vladimir Kramnik
  • Book
  • Study
  • Chess

• The two principles of truth, reason and senses, are not only both not genuine, but are engaged in mutual deception. The senses deceive reason through false appearances, and the senses are disturbed by passions, which produce false impressions.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Passions
  • Genuine

• Friendship is genuine when two friends can enjoy each others company without speaking a word to one another.

  

  Georg Ebers
  • Friendship
  • Company
  • Genuine

• I do think you need different primary kinds of love at different points in your life.

  

  Kate Arrington
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Kinds

• I like certain people's work better than my own.

  

  Ethan Canin
  • People
  • Work

• As in so many cases of sexual abuse within the family, it is much more complicated than had it been done by a stranger.

  

  Erin Merryn
  • Complicated
  • Stranger

• A state of things in which a large portion of the most active and inquiring intellects find it advisable to keep the genuine principles and grounds of their convictions within their own breasts, and attempt, in what they address to the public, to fit as much as they can of their own conclusions to premises which they have internally renounced, cannot send forth the open, fearless characters, and logical, consistent intellects who once adorned the thinking world.

  

  John Stuart Mill
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