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The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

The perpetual obstacle to human advancement is custom.

John Stuart Mill
Progress, Overcoming, Advancement

The application of algebra to geometry ... has immortalized the name of Descartes, and constitutes the greatest single step ever made in the progress of the exact sciences.

John Stuart Mill
Science, Names, Progress
John Stuart Mill (1865). “An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy and of the Principal Philosophical Questions Discussed in His Writings”, p.531

It's hardly possible to overstate the value, in the present state of human improvement, of placing human beings in contact with other persons dissimilar to themselves, and with modes of thought and action unlike those with which they are familiar. Such communication has always been... one of the primary sources of progress.

John Stuart Mill
Communication, Progress, Action

Any society which is not improving is deteriorating, and the more so the closer and more familiar it is. Even a really superior man almost always begins to deteriorate when he is habitually king of his company.

John Stuart Mill
Kings, Men, Progress
John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.499, Oxford University Press, USA

A stationary condition of capital and population implies no stationary state of human improvement. There could be as much scope as ever for all kinds of mental culture, and moral and social progress.

John Stuart Mill
Progress, Population, Culture
1848 Principles of Political Economy, with Some Applications to Social Philosophy.

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