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On Liberty
John Stuart Mill once said: “Better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a fool satisfied.”
Rutger Bregman • Utopia for Realists
In his book, On Liberty, published in 1859, John Stuart Mill was giving similar advice, arguing that societies need people to embrace their individuality and perform “experiments in living.” He argued that such experiments are vital to the pursuit of knowledge and that cultures only learn and evolve when original approaches to living are discovered
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John Stuart Mill held that government oppression is generally less burdensome than the tyranny of friends, neighbors, and fellow citizens.
Timur Kuran • Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification
John Stuart Mill wrote in the 1840s: “I have observed that not the man who hopes when others despair, but the man who despairs when others hope, is admired by a large class of persons as a sage.”