Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.
The intensest feeling of the beauty of a cloud lighted by the setting sun, is no hindrance to my knowing that the cloud is a vapour of water, subject to all the laws of vapours in a state of suspensio...
The best state for human nature is that in which, while no one is poor, no one desires to be richer, nor has any reason to fear being thrust back, by the efforts of others to push themselves forward.
The liberty of the individual must be thus far limited, he must not make himself a nuisance to other people.
A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by...
Such is the facility with which mankind believe at one and the same time things inconsistent with one another, and so few are those who draw from what they receive as truths, any consequences but thos...
The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept...
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 worth of a state in the long run is the worth of the individuals composing it.
Ask yourself whether you are happy and you will cease to be so.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.
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 dang...
All 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...
The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.
Tant qu’une opinion est implantée sur les sentiments, elle défie les arguments les plus décisifs ; elle en tire de la force au lieu d’en être affaiblie : si elle n’était que le résultat du raisonnemen...
Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, an...
D'un côté ou de l'autre, on doit condamner tout homme dans la plaidoirie duquel percerait la mauvaise foi, la malveillance, la bigoterie ou encore l'intolérance, mais cela sans inférer ses vices du pa...
Language is the light of the mind.
Human nature is not a machine to be built after a model, and set to do exactly the work prescribed for it, but a tree, which requires to grow and develop itself on all sides, according to the tendency...