In proportion to the development of his individuality, each person becomes more valuable to others. There is a greater fullness of life about his own existence, and when there is more life in the units there is more in the mass which is composed of them.
The bad workmen who form the majority of the operatives in many branches of industry are decidedly of opinion that bad workmen ought to receive the same wages as good.
The successful conduct of an industrial enterprise requires two quite distinct qualifications: fidelity and zeal.
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.
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.
Judgement is given to men that they may use it. Because it may be used erroneously, are men to be told that they ought not to use it at all?
All free communities have both been more exempt from social injustice and crime, and have attained more brilliant prosperity, than any others, or than they themselves after they have lost their freedom.
All attempts by the State to bias the conclusions of its citizens on disputed subjects, are evil.
It is only in the backward countries of the world that increased production is still an important object.
A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species...
Every established fact which is too bad to admit of any other defence is always presented to us as an injunction of religion.
It is better to be Socrates dissatisfied than a pig satisfied.
I had learnt from experience that many false opinions may be exchanged for true ones, without in the least altering the habits of mind of which false opinions are made.
To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.
What citizens of a free country would listen to any offers of good and skillful administration in return for the abdication of freedom?
Is there any moral enormity which might not be justified by imitation of such a Deity?
God is a word to express, not our ideas, but the want of them.
So true is that unnatural generally means only uncustomary, and that everything which is usual appears natural.
Both teachers and learners go to sleep at their post as soon as there is no enemy in the field.
No one can be a great thinker who does not recognize that as a thinker it is his first duty to follow his intellect to whatever conclusions it may lead.