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

“A society that will trade a little liberty for a little order will lose both, and deserve neither.”

John Stuart Mill

Also attributed to Thomas Jefferson, this is a modern paraphrase of a statement of Benjamin Franklin: "Those who would give up Essential Liberty to purchase a little Temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety."
Misattributed

“The dissatisfaction with life and the world, felt more or less in the present state of society and intellect by every discerning and highly conscientious mind, gave in his case a rather melancholy tinge to the character, very natural to those whose passive moral susceptibilities are more than proportioned to their active energies. For it must be said, that the strength of will of which his manner seemed to give such strong assurance, expended itself principally in manner. With great zeal for human improvement, a strong sense of duty and capacities and acquirements the extent of which is proved by the writings he has left, he hardly ever completed any intellectual task of magnitude. He had so high a standard of what ought to be done, so exaggerated a sense of deficiencies in his own performances, and was so unable to content himself with the amount of elaboration sufficient for the occasion and the purpose, that he not only spoilt much of his work for ordinary use by over-labouring it, but spent so much time and exertion in superfluous study and thought, that when his task ought to have been completed, he had generally worked himself into an illness, without having half finished what he undertook. From this mental infirmity (of which he is not the sole example among the accomplished and able men whom I have known), combined with liability to frequent attacks of disabling though not dangerous ill-health, he accomplished, through life, little in comparison with what he seemed capable of;”

John Stuart Mill livro Autobiography

Fonte: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/74/mode/1up pp. 74-75

“A pupil from whom nothing is ever demanded which he cannot do never does all he can.”

John Stuart Mill livro Autobiography

Fonte: Autobiography (1873), Ch. 1: Childhood and Early Education (p. 32 http://archive.org/stream/autobiographymil00milluoft#page/32/mode/2up/search/%22a+pupil+from+whom+nothing+is+ever+demanded+which+he+cannot+do+never+does+all+he+can%22)

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