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“A big city cannot afford to have its attention distracted from the important job of being a big city by such a tiny, unimportant item as your happiness or mine.”
― E.R. Braithwaite, To Sir, With Love

“We have simply to sit silently and be.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“Call it truth, god, bliss, beauty: all those things indicate the same phenomenon.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“Priests are the most cunning people.”
― Osho

“Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“A person may cause evil to others not only by his actions but by his inaction.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Each is the proper guardian of his own health, whether bodily, or mental and spiritual. Mankind are greater gainers by suffering each other to live as seems good to themselves, than by compelling each to live as seems good to the rest.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Engines of moral repression have been wielded more strenuously against divergence from the reigning opinion in self-regarding.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Many opinions, now general, will be rejected by future ages, as it is that many, once general, are rejected by the present.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“It is the duty of governments, and of individuals, to form the truest opinions they can; to form them carefully, and never impose them upon others unless they are quite sure of being right. But when they are sure (such reasoners may say), it is not conscientiousness but cowardice to shrink from acting on their opinions, and allow doctrines which they honestly think dangerous to the welfare of mankind, either in this life or in another, to be scattered abroad without restraint, because other people, in less enlightened times, have persecuted opinions now believed to be true.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“We may, and must, assume our opinion to be true for the guidance of our own conduct.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“n the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind open to criticism of his opinions and conduct. Because it has been his practice to listen to all that could be said against him; to profit by as much of it as was just, and expound to himself, and upon occasion to others, the fallacy of what was fallacious. Because he has felt, that the only way in which a human being can make some approach to knowing the whole of a subject, is by hearing what can be said about it by persons of every variety of opinion, and studying all modes in which it can be looked at by every character of mind.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“It is not too much to require that what the wisest of mankind, those who are best entitled to trust their own judgment, find necessary to war- rant their relying on it, should be submitted to by that miscellaneous collection of a few wise and many foolish individuals, called the public. The most intolerant of churches, the Roman Catholic Church, even at the canonisation of a saint, admits, and listens patiently to, a “devil’s advocate.” The holiest of men, it appears, cannot be admitted to posthu- mous honours, until all that the devil could say against him is known and weighed. If even the Newtonian philosophy were not permitted to be questioned, mankind could not feel as complete assurance of its truth as they now do. The beliefs which we have most warrant for have no safeguard to rest on, but a standing invitation to the whole world to prove them unfounded. If the challenge is not accepted, or is accepted and the attempt fails, we are far enough from certainty still; but we have done the best that the existing state of human reason admits of; we have neglected nothing that could give the truth a chance of reaching us: if the lists are kept open, we may hope that if there be a better truth, it will be found when the human mind is capable of receiving it; and in the meantime we may rely on having attained such approach to truth as is possible in our own day. This is the amount of certainty attainable by a fallible being, and this the sole way of attaining it.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The claims of an opinion to be protected from public attack are rested not so much on its truth, as on its importance to society.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Don’t walk in front of me… I may not follow
Don’t walk behind me… I may not lead
Walk beside me… just be my friend”
― Albert Camus

“The real advantage which truth has consists in this, that when an opinion is true, it may be extinguished once, twice, or many times, but in the course of ages there will generally be found persons to rediscover it.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of those pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Despotism is a legitimate mode of government in dealing with barbarians, provided the end be their improvement.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“I take off my cycle-clips in awkward reverence.”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

“Wondering what to look for; wondering, too,
When churches fall completely out of use
What we shall turn them into, if we shall keep
A few cathedrals chronically on show”
― Philip Larkin, Collected Poems

“We don’t love life, we hate it, and the so-called religions have been teaching people that life is a punishment.”
― Osho, First in the Morning: 365 Uplifting Moments to Start the Day Consciously

“One can call it god, nirvana, truth or one can be simply silent about it because no word is adequate.”
― Osho, Ah, This!

“Do I contradict myself?

Very well then I contradict myself,

(I am large, I contain multitudes.)”
― Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass

“जो विचार आप होश और जोश के साथ एक दिशा में करते हैं, वे हक़ीक़त में बदलते हैं।”
― Sirshree

“Our merely social intolerance kills no one, roots out no opinions, but induces men to disguise them, or to abstain from any active effort for their diffusion.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“But it is not the minds of heretics that are deteriorated most by the ban placed on all inquiry which does not end in the orthodox conclusions. The greatest harm done is to those who are not heretics, and whose whole mental development is cramped, and their reason cowed, by the fear of heresy.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“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.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty

“The fatal tendency of mankind to leave off thinking about a thing when it is no longer doubtful is the case of half their errors.”
― John Stuart Mill, On Liberty