Js Mill Quotes

1 + 1 = 2 is simply an induction from experience. It is in no way logically or arithmetically ‘necessary’. It is induced knowledge, on a par with ‘All swans are white’.

la felicidad no es algo que sucede. No es el resultado de la buena suerte o del azar. No es algo que pueda comprarse con dinero o con poder. No parece depender de los acontecimientos externos, sino más bien de cómo los interpretamos. De hecho, la felicidad es una condición vital que cada persona debe preparar, cultivar y defender individualmente. Las personas que saben controlar su experiencia interna son capaces de determinar la calidad de sus vidas, eso es lo más cerca que podemos estar de ser felices. De todos modos, no se puede alcanzar la felicidad mediante la búsqueda consciente de ella. «Pregúntese a sí mismo si es feliz –decía J.S. Mill– y dejará de serlo». Es al estar totalmente involucrados en cada detalle de nuestras vidas, sea bueno o malo, cuando encontramos la felicidad, no intentando buscarla directamente. Viktor Frankl, el psicólogo austríaco, lo resumió bellamente en el prefacio de su libro Man’s Search for Meaning: «No aspiren al éxito: cuanto más aspiren a él y más lo conviertan en su objetivo, con mayor probabilidad lo perderán. Puesto que el éxito, como la felicidad, no puede conseguirse, debe seguirse… como si fuese el efecto secundario no intencionado de la dedicación personal a algo mayor que uno mismo.» Así, ¿cómo podemos alcanzar esta meta tan escurridiza que no puede alcanzarse por una ruta directa? Mis estudios durante este último cuarto de siglo me han convencido de que existe un modo. Es un camino tortuoso que empieza consiguiendo el control sobre los contenidos de nuestra conciencia. Nuestras percepciones sobre nuestras vidas son el resultado de muchas fuerzas que conforman nuestra experiencia, y cada

Harriet Taylor Mill and John Stuart Mill are two key figures who endorsed Wollstonecraft's liberal feminist ideas and expanded them in the second half of the 19th century. They too led an unconventional private life. Harriet Taylor was married and mother to two children when she met J.S. Mill and began a long-term relationship with him- with the permission of her husband John Taylor. Harriet and Mill were attracted to each other intellectually and emotionally, although it is believed that their relationship remained Platonic until they were married following the death of John Taylor. There is still uncertainty as to whether the Mills enjoyed a sexua relationship before or after their marriage. There is evidence in their writing to suggest that they found the sexual act inherently degrading.

The only freedom that deserves a name is that of pursuing our on good, in our own way, so long as we do not deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it ...

If all mankind minus one were of one opinion, and only one person were of the contrary opinion, mankind would be no more justified in silencing that one person than he, if he had the power, would be justified in silencing mankind. Were an opinion a personal possession of no value except to the owner, if to be obstructed in the enjoyment of it were simply a private injury, it would make some difference whether the injury was inflicted only on a few persons or on many. But the peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is robbing the human race, posterity as well as the existing generation-- those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it.

DO NOT BE TIMID TOWARDS THE WORLD; BE BOLD. DO NOT SUBMIT TO THE WORLD; DOMINATE IT. Better a wolf than a dog. Better a shepherd than a sheep. Better Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied (as J.S. Mill memorably said).

Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.” —J.S. Mill.

It is a doctrine worthy only of a swine to suppose that life has…no higher end than pleasure – no better and nobler object of desire and pursuit.

It is better to be a human being dissatisfied than a pig satisfied; better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.

methods—much. By the by, I'm just going to meet Rathbury. He may have heard of something

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It was completely annoying that it had been sunny and bright on the day of Patrick’s funeral. Not one single cloud in the sky as a sea of men in uniform, their badges all covered with a black horizontal stripe to mark the loss of one of their own, milled around a cemetery. Their expressions were solemn, and many of them were visibly sweating from wearing heavy uniforms in the Southern California heat.