John Stuart Mill Quotes

I have just discovered the truth, and can't understand why everybody isn't eager to hear it.

It is a glorious occupation, vivifying and self-sustaining in its nature, to struggle with ignorance, and discover to the inquiring minds of the masses the clear cerulean blue of heavenly truth.

The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

The truth is not for all men, but only for those who seek it.

To the scientist there is the joy in pursuing truth which nearly counteracts the depressing revelations of truth.

There is a single light of science, and to brighten it anywhere is to brighten it everywhere.

A day spent without the sight or sound of beauty, the contemplation of mystery, or the search of truth or perfection is a poverty-stricken day; and a succession of such days is fatal to human life.

All your questions can be answered, if that is what you want. But once you learn your answers, you can never unlearn them.

Many are convinced, who are not truly enlightened; are afraid of the consequences of sin, though they never saw its evil; have a seeming desire of salvation, which is not founded upon a truly spiritual discovery of their own wretchedness, and the excellency of Jesus.

There's a fire that burns away the lies, manifesting in the spiritual eye.

The more false we destroy, the more room there will be for the true.

There is only one calamity: ignorance. And there is only one solution: enlightenment.

A few drops of science will often disinfect an entire barrel full of ignorance and prejudice.

I can show you new things, have you feeling spiritual.

The word enlightenment conjures up the idea of some superhuman accomplishment, and the ego likes to keep it that way, but it is simply your natural state of felt oneness with Being.

Who cares if you're enlightened forever? Can you just get it in this moment, now?

The process of gathering spiritual light is the quest of a lifetime.

How the world can change, It can change like that, Due to one little word: "Married.

Absolute faith is not the place of self-affirmation, but the place of self-negation. Life of faith is not limited to our spiritual life. What is important is how our spiritual sensitivity is applied to our relative environment.

You receive the light through what you read, through what you hear in meditation, or through some spiritual practice.

Generally, people who are not self-realized are full of themselves. One who is self-realized sees that the whole world is full of one.

The phrase "spiritual journey" is one that I've only become familiar with comparatively recently. We wouldn't have put it like that when I was a kid.

Death is not big thing, what is important is God's service.

For me, it is important to not just tell the audience how the story ended today, but to give a glimpse into how other people's stories might go on, in the future.

Always try to associate yourself closely with and learn as much as you can from those who know more than you, who do better than you, who see more clearly than you. Apart from the rewards of friendship, the association might pay off at some unforeseen time - that is only an accidental byproduct. The important thing is that the learning will make you a better person.