"The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of..." - John Stuart Mill

🏺 Philosophy

“The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius and vigor it contained.”

Mill correlates creative nonconformity with societal vitality.

“The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Ask yourself whether you are happy, and you cease to be so.”

— John Stuart Mill

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires rather than in attempting to satisfy them”

— John Stuart Mill

“To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbour as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.”

— John Stuart Mill

“Liberty consists in doing what one desires.”

— John Stuart Mill

“He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. Peace requires understanding all sides.”

— John Stuart Mill