Frases de John Stuart Mill
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John Stuart Mill foi um filósofo e economista britânico nascido na Inglaterra, e um dos pensadores liberais mais influentes do século XIX. Foi um defensor do utilitarismo, a teoria ética proposta inicialmente por seu padrinho Jeremy Bentham. Destacam-se seus trabalhos nos campos da filosofia política, ética, economia política e lógica, apesar de também ter escrito críticas literárias e até poesias.

✵ 20. Maio 1806 – 8. Maio 1873  •  Outros nomes J.S Mill, John S. Mill
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John Stuart Mill Frases famosas

“Um conservador não é necessariamente parco de inteligência, mas a maioria das pessoas pouco inteligentes são conservadoras.”

John Stuart Mill

all conservatives aro not stupid, all stupid people are conservative.
citado em "Harper's new monthly magazine: Volume 60" - página 785, Henry Mills Alden - Harper & Brothers, 1880
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“É impossível que ocorram grandes transformações positivas no destino da humanidade se não houver uma mudança de peso na estrutura básica de seu modo de pensar.”

John Stuart Mill

No great improvements in the lot of mankind are possible, until a great change takes place in the fundamental constitution of their modes of thought.
citado em "London society: Volume 26" - página 371, J. Hogg, 1874
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“Quem só conhece seu próprio lado do problema sabe pouco sobre ele.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

He who knows only his own side of the case knows little of that. <br class="br">On liberty - Página 67 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA67, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

“As pessoas de gênio, é verdade, são e provavelmente sempre serão uma pequena minoria; no entanto, para tê-las é necessário conservar o solo em que crescem. O gênio só pode respirar livremente numa atmosfera de liberdade.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

Persons of genius, it is true, are, and are always likely to be, a small minority ; but in order to have them, it is necessary to preserve the soil in which they grow. Genius can only breathe freely in an atmosphere of freedom. <br class="br">On liberty - Página 116 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA116, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

“Nunca podemos ter certeza de que a opinião que tentamos sufocar é falsa; e se tivéssemos, sufocá-la continuaria sendo um mal.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

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. <br class="br">On Liberty - Página 34 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA34, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859, 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

Citações de idade de John Stuart Mill

“Aparentemente, uma pessoa pode progredir durante um certo tempo e então parar. Quando ela pára? Quando deixa de ter individualidade.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

A people, it appears, may be progressive for a certain length of time, and then stop : when does it stop ? When it ceases to possess individuality. <br class="br">On liberty - Página 127 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA127, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

“Quem deixa que o mundo, ou uma porção deste, escolha seu plano de vida não tem necessidade senão da faculdade de imitação dos símios.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

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. <br class="br">On liberty - Página 106 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA106, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

“As ações são corretas na medida em que tendem a promover a felicidade, erradas na medida em que tendem a promover o reverso da felicidade.”

John Stuart Mill

Principle, holds that actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness, wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. <br class="br">Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical - Volume 3, Página 308 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-iEvAAAAYAAJ&amp;pg=PA308, John Stuart Mill - William V. Spencer, 1865

John Stuart Mill frases e citações

“O maior perigo de nossos tempos é que tão poucos ousam ser excêntricos.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time. <br class="br">On liberty - Página 121 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&amp;pg=PA121, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas <br class="br">On Liberty

“Perguntem a vocês mesmos se são felizes e deixarão de sê-los.”

John Stuart Mill

Ask yourself whether you are happy and you cease to be so.
The ethics of John Stuart Mill - página 108, John Stuart Mill, Charles Douglas - Blackwood, 1897 - 233 páginas

John Stuart Mill: Frases em inglês

“I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.”

John Stuart Mill

Attributed to John Stuart Mill in The Phrenological Journal and Science of Health, Vol. LXXXV (September 1887), p. 170
Disputed

“I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally Conservative. I believe that to be so obvious and undeniable a fact that I hardly think any hon. Gentleman will question it.”

John Stuart Mill livro Considerations on Representative Government

In a Parliamentary debate with the Conservative MP, John Pakington (May 31, 1866). Hansard, vol 183, col 1592. Pakington was referring to Footnote 3 to Chapter 7 of Mill's "Considerations on Representative Government".
Misquoted as "I never meant to say that the Conservatives are generally stupid. I meant to say that stupid people are generally Conservative. I believe that is so obviously and universally admitted a principle that I hardly think any gentleman will deny it." in "Life of John Stuart Mill" (1889) by W. L. Courtney, p. 147.
This seems to have become paraphrased as "Conservatives are not necessarily stupid, but most stupid people are conservatives." which was a variant published in Quotations for Our Time (1978), edited by Laurence J. Peter.

“I will call no being good who is not what I mean when I apply that epithet to my fellow creatures; and if such a creature can sentence me to hell for not so calling him, to hell I will go.”

John Stuart Mill

Fonte: An examination of Sir William Hamilton's philosophy, and of the principal philosophical questions discussed in his writings

“I am thus one of the very few examples, in this country, of one who has, not thrown off religious belief, but never had it.”

John Stuart Mill livro Autobiography

Fonte: Autobiography (1873)

https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/43/mode/1up p. 43

“I well knew that to propose something which would be called extreme, was the true way not to impede but to facilitate a more moderate experiment.”

John Stuart Mill livro Autobiography

Fonte: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 7: General View of the Remainder of My Life (p. 206)

“[T]he application of algebra to geometry… far more than any of his metaphysical speculations, has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.”

John Stuart Mill

An Examination of Sir William Hamilton&#x27;s Philosophy (1865) as quoted in 5th ed. (1878) p. 617. https://books.google.com/books?id=ojQNAQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA617

“Granted that any practice causes more pain to animals than it gives pleasure to man; is that practice moral or immoral? And if, exactly in proportion as human beings raise their heads out of the slough of selfishness, they do not with one voice answer 'immoral,' let the morality of the principle of utility be for ever condemned.”

John Stuart Mill

Dr. Whewell on Moral Philosophy (1852), in Dissertations and Discussions: Political, Philosophical, and Historical, vol. 2, London: John W. Parker and son, 1859, p. 485 https://books.google.it/books?id=w-I3AQAAMAAJ&amp;pg=PA485

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