All good things which exist are the fruits of originality.
Interpretation
Originality is essential for the creation of valuable and positive contributions to the world.
This quote highlights the importance of originality in the development of all good things. John Stuart Mill emphasizes that creativity and unique ideas are the foundation upon which valuable aspects of life are built, suggesting that without originality, society would lack progress and innovation.
In practice
In a motivational speech about entrepreneurship, one might say, 'Remember, all good things which exist are the fruits of originality.'
The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is, that it is robbing the human race; posterity as well as the existing generation; those who dissent from the opinion, still more than those who hold it. If the opinion is right, they are deprived of the opportunity of exchanging error for truth: if wrong, they lose, what is almost as great a benefit, the clearer perception and livelier impression of truth, produced by its collision with error.
As for charity, it is a matter in which the immediate effect on the persons directly concerned, and the ultimate consequence to the general good, are apt to be at complete war with one another.
To think that because those who wield power in society wield in the end that of government, therefore it is of no use to attempt to influence the constitution of the government by acting on opinion, is to forget that opinion is itself one of the greatest active social forces. One person with a belief is a social power equal to ninety-nine who have only interests.
There should be perfect freedom, legal and social, to do the action and stand the consequences. It would be a great misunderstanding of this doctrine to suppose that it is one of selfish indifference, which pretends that human beings have no business with each other's conduct in life, and that they should not concern themselves about the well-doing or well-being of one another, unless their own interest is involved.
Political Economy, in truth, has never pretended to give advice to mankind with no lights but its own; though people who knew nothing but political economy (and therefore knew it ill) have taken upon themselves to advise, and could only do so by such lights as they had.
Marriage is the only actual bondage known to our law. There remain no legal slaves, except the mistress of every house.
I still occasionally need to struggle but I now fear it less. The weapons I fight it with are also my consolations: books, music, food, wine, nature.
All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
Destroy my desires, eradicate my ideals, show me something better, and I will follow you.
When you sing that this country was founded on freedom, don't forget the duet of shackles dragging against the ground my entire life.
It does not matter how frequently something succeeds if failure is too costly to bear.
Learn to see - accustoming the eye to calm, to patience, to letting-things-come-to-it; learning to defer judgment, to encircle and encompass the question on all sides.
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