“The individual is not accountable to society for his actions in so far as these concern the interests of no person but himself.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
The dictum that truth always triumphs over persecution is one of the pleasant falsehoods which men repeat after one another till they pass into commonplaces, but which all experience refutes.
The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.
Pleasure and freedom from pain, are the only things desirable as ends.
Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.
