John Stuart Mill
Brief Bio: English philosopher, political economist, Member of Parliament (MP) and civil servant
Lived: 1806-1873
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Quotes:
“Intellectual Debate”
In all intellectual debates, both sides tend to be correct in what they affirm, and wrong in what they deny.
“The increase of wealth is not boundless”
The increase of wealth is not boundless. A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There would be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress; as much room for improving the art of living, and much more likelihood of it being improved, when minds ceased to be engrossed by the art of getting on.
1848
“The internal culture of the individual”
The other important change which my opinions at this time underwent, was that I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.
1873 from the book Autobiography of John Stuart Mill