Philosopher Quotes

Men might as well be imprisoned, as excluded from the means of earning their bread.
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is.
Of two pleasures, if there be one which all or almost all who have experience of both give a decided preference, irrespective of any feeling of moral obligation to prefer it, that is the more desirable pleasure.
One person with a belief is equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Popular opinions, on subjects not palpable to sense, are often true, but seldom or never the whole truth.
That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.
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.
The despotism of custom is everywhere the standing hindrance to human advancement.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.
The duty of man is the same in respect to his own nature as in respect to the nature of all other things, namely not to follow it but to amend it.
The general tendency of things throughout the world is to render mediocrity the ascendant power among mankind.
The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited; he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good, in our own way, so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs, or impede their efforts to obtain it.
The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.
The only power deserving the name is that of masses, and of governments while they make themselves the organ of the tendencies and instincts of masses.
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