Actions are right in proportion as they promote happiness, wrong as the produce the reverse.
There is no such thing as absolute certainty, but there is assurance sufficient for the purposes of human life.
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More Quotes from John Stuart Mill
He who lets the world, or his own portion of it, choose his plan of life for him, has no need of any other faculty than the ape-like one of imitation.
It is not because men's desires are strong that they act ill; it is because their consciences are weak.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.
To do as one would be done by, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, constitute the ideal perfection of utilitarian morality.
The creed which accepts as the foundation of morals Utility, or the Greatest Happiness Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness.
In this age, the man who dares to think for himself and to act independently does a service to his race.
More on Life
Life does not consist of facts. It consists mainly of the storm of thoughts that is forever flowing through one's head.
Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.
The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions.
Never be bored, and you will never be boring.
While there's life, there's hope.
The world is a mountain, in which your words are echoed back to you.
Live each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit, and resign yourself to the influences of each.
Instead of dirt and poison we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax; thus furnishing mankind with the two noblest of things, which are sweetness and light.
