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To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

To understand one woman is not necessarily to understand any other woman.

John Stuart Mill
Understanding, One Woman
John Stuart Mill (2015). “On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays”, p.431, OUP Oxford

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 to rediscover it

John Stuart Mill
Spiritual, Real, Understanding
John Stuart Mill (1913). “On Liberty: The philosophical work that changed society for ever”, p.42, Harriman House Limited

If religious belief be indeed so necessary to mankind, as we are continually assured that it is, there is great reason to lament, that the intellectual grounds of it should require to be backed by moral bribery or subornation of the understanding.

John Stuart Mill
Religious, Understanding, Intellectual
John Stuart Mill (1874). “Nature, the Utility of Religion, and Theism”, p.71

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