The principle itself of dogmatic religion, dogmatic morality, dogmatic philosophy, is what requires to be rooted out; not any particular manifestation of that principle. The very corner-stone of an education intended to form great minds, must be the recognition of the principle, that the object is to call forth the greatest possible quantity of intellectual power, and to inspire the intensest love of truth.
John Stuart MillThe feeling of a direct responsibility of the individual to God is almost wholly a creation of Protestantism.
John Stuart MillIn this age, the mere example of nonconformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service.
John Stuart MillLife has a certain flavor for those who have fought and risked all that the sheltered and protected can never experience.
John Stuart MillI have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.
John Stuart MillAll women are brought up from the very earliest years in the belief that their ideal of character is the very opposite to that of men; not self-will, and government by self-control, but submission and yielding to the control of others. All the moralities tell them that it is their nature to live for others; to make complete abnegation of themselves, and to have no life but in their affections.
John Stuart Mill