Frases de John Stuart Mill (201 citas, página 5)

Original: «A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can».
Fuente: Mill, John Stuart. Autobiography. Editorial Simon and Schuster, 2013. ISBN 9781627936248.
Fuente: Childhood and Early Education, capítulo 1.

“Como fuerza social, un individuo con una idea vale por noventa y nueve con un solo interés.”

John Stuart Mill

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Idea

“Fueron hombres de otro cuño los que han hecho de Inglaterra lo que ha sido; y hombres de otro cuño serán necesarios para prevenir su decadencia.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: Sobre la Libertad.

De hombres

“He aprendido a buscar mi felicidad limitando mis deseos en vez de satisfacerlos.”

John Stuart Mill

De fe , De felicidad/suerte , Buscar

“No forman parte de la naturaleza de las cosas asuntos como el reparto de la riqueza. Es esta cuestión mera creación humana.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: Principios de Economía Política, p. 199.

De arte , Naturaleza , Riqueza

“Todo hombre lo bastante inteligente y generoso para aportar a la empresa su esfuerzo, por pequeño e insignificante que sea, obtendrá de la lucha misma un noble goce que no estará dispuesto a vender por ningún placer egoísta.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: El Utilitarismo, capítulo 2: ¿Qué es el utilitarismo?.

De placer , De gente , Esfuerzo , Lucha

“Todo ser humano debidamente educado siente un sincero interés por el bien público.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: El Utilitarismo.

“Todas las cosas buenas que existen son fruto de la originalidad.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: Sobre la Libertad.

“Confiar la instrucción pública al Estado constituye una perversa maquinación tendiente a moldear la mente humana, de tal manera que no exista la menor diferencia de un individuo a otro; el molde a tal efecto utilizado es el mas grato al régimen político imperante, ya se trate de una monarquía, una teocracia, una aristocracia, o bien a la opinión pública del momento; en la medida que tal cometido se realiza con acierto y eficacia, queda instalado un despotismo sobre la inteligencia de los hombres que más tarde, por natural evolución, somete a su imperio el cuerpo mismo de la gente.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: Sobre la Libertad.

De fe , De hombres , De gente , Inteligencia

“La condición estacionaria del capital y de la población no implica un estado estacionario del mejoramiento humano. Habría muchas oportunidades para todo tipo de mentalidades culturales, para el progreso moral, social, para perfeccionar el arte de vivir si las mentes dejasen de centrarse en el arte de medrar"
Principios de Economía Política”

John Stuart Mill libro Principles of Political Economy

Principles of Political Economy: And Chapters on Socialism

De arte , Oportunidad

“No quise decir que los conservadores sean estúpidos. Yo quise decir que la gente estúpida generalmente es conservadora.”

John Stuart Mill

Fuente: Public and Parliamentary Speeches, 31, May, 1866.

De gente

John Stuart Mill: Frases en inglés

“For I now saw, or thought I saw, what I had always before received with incredulity -- that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings: as indeed it has, when no other mental habit is cultivated, and the analysing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/137/mode/1up p. 137

“I never turned recreant to intellectual culture, or ceased to consider the power and practice of analysis as an essential condition both of individual and of social improvement. But I thought that it had consequences which required to be corrected, by joining other kinds of cultivation with it. The maintenance of a due balance among the faculties, now seemed to me of primary importance. The cultivation of the feelings became one of the cardinal points in my ethical and philosophical creed.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Autobiography (1873)

“He was often, and much beyond reason, provoked by my failures in cases where success could not have been expected; but in the main his method was right, and it succeeded. I do not believe that any scientific teaching ever was more thorough, or better fitted for training the faculties, than the mode in which logic and political economy were taught to me by my father. Striving, even in an exaggerated degree, to call forth the activity of my faculties, by making me find out everything for myself, he gave his explanations not before, but after, I had felt the full force of the difficulties; and not only gave me an accurate knowledge of these two great subjects, as far as they were then understood, but made me a thinker on both.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873)

https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/28/mode/1up pp. 28–29

“How can great minds be produced in a country where the test of a great mind is agreeing in the opinions of small minds?”

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John Stuart Mill

As quoted in Egoists: A Book of Supermen (1909) by James Huneker, p. 367

“The question was, whether, if the reformers of society and government could succeed in their objects, and every person in the community were free and in a state of physical comfort, the pleasures of life, being no longer kept up by struggle and privation, would cease to be pleasures.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 5: A Crisis in My Mental History (p. 102)

“I have never known any man who could do such ample justice to his best thoughts in colloquial discussion. His perfect command over his great mental resources, the terseness and expressiveness of his language and the moral earnestness as well as intellectual force of his delivery, made him one of the most striking of all argumentative conversers: and he was full of anecdote, a hearty laugher, and, when with people whom he liked, a most lively and amusing companion. It was not solely, or even chiefly, in diffusing his merely intellectual convictions that his power showed itself: it was still more through the influence of a quality, of which I have only since learnt to appreciate the extreme rarity: that exalted public spirit, and regard above all things to the good of the whole, which warmed into life and activity every germ of similar virtue that existed in the minds he came in contact with: the desire he made them feel for his approbation, the shame at his disapproval; the moral support which his conversation and his very existence gave to those who were aiming to the same objects, and the encouragement he afforded to the fainthearted or desponding among them, by the firm confidence which (though the reverse of sanguine as to the results to be expected in any one particular case) he always felt in the power of reason, the general progress of improvement, and the good which individuals could do by judicious effort.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/101/mode/1up pp. 101-102

“I had always heard it maintained by my father, and was myself convinced, that the object of education should be to form the strongest possible associations of the salutary class; associations of pleasure with all things beneficial to the great whole, and of pain with all things hurtful to it.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/136/mode/1up p. 136

“My education, which was wholly his work, had been conducted without any regard to the possibility of its ending in this result; and I saw no use in giving him the pain of thinking that his plans had failed, when the failure was probably irremediable, and, at all events, beyond the power of his remedies. Of other friends, I had at that time none to whom I had any hope of making my condition intelligible. It was however abundantly intelligible to myself; and the more I dwelt upon it, the more hopeless it appeared.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Autobiography (1873)

“I believe that the early success and reputation of Carlyle's French Revolution, were considerably accelerated by what I wrote about it in the Review. Immediately on its publication, and before the commonplace critics, all whose rules and modes of judgment it set at defiance, had time to preoccupy the public with their disapproval of it, I wrote and published a review of the book, hailing it as one of those productions of genius which are above all rules, and are a law to themselves.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873)
Fuente: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/217/mode/1up p. 217

“There is no author to whom my father thought himself more indebted for his own mental culture, than Plato, or whom he more frequently recommended to young student. I can bear similar testimony in regard to myself. The Socratic method, of which the Platonic dialogues are the chief example, is unsurpassed as a discipline for correcting the errors, and clearing up the confusions incident to the intellectus sibi permissus.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873)

https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/21/mode/1up pp. 21–22

“The practical reformer has continually to demand that changes be made in things which are supported by powerful and widely-spread feelings, or to question the apparent necessity and indefeasibleness of established facts; and it is often an indispensable part of his argument to show, how these powerful feelings had their origin, and how those facts came to seem necessary and indefeasible. There is therefore a natural hostility between him and a philosophy which discourages the explanation of feelings and moral facts by circumstances and association, and prefers to treat them as ultimate elements of human nature; a philosophy which is addicted to holding up favorite doctrines as intuitive truths, and deems intuition to be the voice of Nature and of God, speaking with an authority higher than that of our reason. In particular, I have long felt that the prevailing tendency to regard all the marked distinctions of human character as innate, and in the main indelible, and to ignore the irresistible proofs that by far the greater part of those differences, whether between individuals, races, or sexes, are such as not only might but naturally would be produced by differences in circumstances, is one of the chief hindrances to the rational treatment of great social questions, and one of the greatest stumbling blocks to human improvement.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 192)

“He who knows only his own side of the case, knows little of that. His reasons may be good, and no one may have been able to refute them. But if he is equally unable to refute the reasons on the opposite side; if he does not so much as know what they are, he has no ground for preferring either opinion.”

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John Stuart Mill libro On Liberty

Fuente: On Liberty (1859), Ch. II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion

“From the winter of 1821, when I first read Bentham, and especially from the commencement of the Westminster Review, I had what might truly be called an object in life; to be a reformer of the world. My conception of my own happiness was entirely identified with this object.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Autobiography (1873)

“But he, with these burthens on him, planned, commenced, and completed, the History of India; and this in the course of about ten years, a shorter time than has been occupied (even by writers who had no other employment) in the production of almost any other historical work of equal bulk, and of anything approaching to the same amount of reading and research. And to this is to be added, that during the whole period, a considerable part of almost every day was employed in the instruction of his children: in the case of one of whom, myself, he exerted an amount of labour, care, and perseverance rarely, if ever, employed for a similar purpose, in endeavouring to give, according to his own conception, the highest order of intellectual education.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873)

https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/4/mode/1up p. 4

“The notion that truths external to the mind may be known by intuition or consciousness, independently of observation and experience, is, I am persuaded, in these times, the great intellectual support of false doctrines and bad institutions. By the aid of this theory, every inveterate belief and every intense feeling, of which the origin is not remembered, is enabled to dispense with the obligation of justifying itself by reason, and is erected into its own all-sufficient voucher and justification. There never was such an instrument devised for consecrating all deep-seated prejudices.”

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John Stuart Mill libro Autobiography

Fuente: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 158)

“It might be plausibly maintained, that in almost every one of the leading controversies, past or present, in social philosophy, both sides were in the right in what they affirmed, though wrong in what they denied.”

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John Stuart Mill

J. S. Mill, Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical, Volume 2 http://books.google.gr/books?id=FyfPAAAAMAAJ&dq=, H. Holt, 1864, p. 11.