Language is the light of the mind

John Stuart Mill
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Language is the light of the mind
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Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends. ✨ John Stuart Mill, Jeremy Bentham, John Troyer (2003). The Classical Utilitarians: Bentham and Mill, p.99, Hackett Publishing
No slave is a slave to the same lengths, and in so full a sense of the word, as a wife is. ✨ The Subjection of Women ch. 2 (1869)
The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.
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 … ▶
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference … ▶

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