Frases de John Stuart Mill (197 citações, página 5)

John Stuart Mill: 197 citações 39 Curtidas

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.
On liberty - Página 67 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA67, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas
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.
On liberty - Página 116 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA116, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas
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.
On Liberty - Página 34 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA34, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859, 207 páginas
On Liberty

“Se portanto a escolha tivesse de ser feita entre o comunismo com todas as suas chances e o atual sistema social com todos seus sofrimentos e injustiças; se a instituição da propriedade privada implicasse com consequência que o produto do trabalho fosse partilhado como agora o vemos ser, quase que na razão inversa ao trabalho - a porção maior para os que jamais trabalharam, a segunda maior para aqueles cujo trabalho nominal e assim em escala descendente, a remuneração se apequenado na medida em que o trabalho se torna mais duro e mais desagradável, até que o trabalho corporal mais fatigante e exaustivo não possa contar com certeza sequer com o ganho da satisfação das necessidades vitais; se isso ou o comunismo fosse a alternativa, todas as dificuldades, grandes ou pequenas, do comunismo não seriam seriam mais que poeira no prato da balança”

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill. Principles of political economy with some of their applications to social philosophy (People's Edition). Londres, Logmans, Green, Reader and Dyer, 1868, Livro II, Capítulo I, p.128)

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.
On liberty - Página 127 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA127, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas
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.
On liberty - Página 106 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA106, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas
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.
Dissertations and discussions: political, philosophical, and historical - Volume 3, Página 308 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=-iEvAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA308, John Stuart Mill - William V. Spencer, 1865

John Stuart Mill frases e citações

“Quem pode calcular o que se perde com a multidão de inteligências, a coexistirem com caracteres tímidos, que não se aventuram a incorporar-se em nenhuma corrente arrojada, vigorosa e independente de opinião, com o temor de que ela os leve a alguma coisa que possa ser taxada de irreligiosa ou imoral?”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

On Liberty

Perda , Inteligência , Leve

“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.
On liberty - Página 121 http://books.google.com.br/books?id=AjpGAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA121, John Stuart Mill - John W. Parker and son, 1859 - 207 páginas
On Liberty

Tempo

“É melhor ser Sócrates insatisfeito do que um porco satisfeito; é melhor ser Sócrates insatisfeito que um imbecil satisfeito. E, se o imbecil ou o porco são de opinião diferente, é que só conhecem um lado da questão: o deles. A outra parte, para fazer a comparação, conhece os dois lados.”

John Stuart Mill

Questão

“Mesmo no que se faz por prazer o conformismo é a primeira coisa em que se pensa; as pessoas desejam em grupo; exercem a escolha apenas entre coisas comummente feitas; fogem da peculiaridade de gosto e da excentricidade de conduta como de crimes; até que, à força de não seguirem a própria natureza, não têm mais natureza a seguir; as suas capacidades humanas mirram e morrem; tornam-se incapazes de desejos fortes e de prazeres naturais; e não apresentam, em regra, opiniões e sentimentos brotados do íntimo, propriamente seus. É essa, entretanto, a condição desejável da natureza humana?”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

On Liberty

Natureza , De pessoas , De prazer , Forte

“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

“Entretanto, sob esta condição, a sociedade tem todo o direito de revogar ou alterar qualquer direito particular de propriedade que, depois de cuidadosa consideração, ela considere ser um obstaculo ao bem público. E, reconhecidamente, o terrível libelo que, como vimos num capitulo anterior, os socialistas podem apresentar contra a atual ordem econômica da sociedade exige completa consideração de todos os meios pelos quais a instituição pode vir a ter uma chance de funcionar de maneira mais benéfica para aquela grande parcela da sociedade que presentemente usufrui a menor parcela de seus benefícios diretos.”

John Stuart Mill

John Stuart Mill. Capítulos sobre o socialismo (Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo).

Chance

“Estou convencido de que as relações sociais dos dois sexos, que subordinam um sexo a outro em nome da lei, são más em si mesmas e constituem um dos principais obstáculos que se opuseram ao progresso da humanidade; estou convencido de que devem ser substituídas por uma igualdade perfeita.”

John Stuart Mill

De leis , De sexo

“Onde a norma de conduta não é o próprio carácter, mas as tradições e costumes alheios, falta um dos principais ingredientes da felicidade humana e, de modo completo, o principal ingrediente do progresso individual e social.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

On Liberty

De felicidade

“A vontade do povo, além disso, quer dizer na prática a vontade da mais numerosa ou mais ativa parte do povo; a maioria, ou aqueles que conseguem se fazer aceitos como a maioria; o povo, consequentemente, pode desejar oprimir uma parte de si mesmo; e contra isso são necessárias muitas precauções, assim como qualquer outro abuso de poder.”

John Stuart Mill livro A Liberdade

A Liberdade

John Stuart Mill: Frases em inglês

“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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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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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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: Autobiography (1873)
Fonte: 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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Fonte: 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro A Liberdade

Fonte: 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 livro 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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 livro Autobiography

Fonte: 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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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.