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Eccentricity has generally tracked genius and moral courage, and its rarity is the chief danger of the time

Drawn from what John Stuart Mill said

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courage Acting despite fear: whether it waits for the fear to go, how it is built, and why so few people show it.

What John Stuart Mill actually said

  1. John Stuart Mill Philosopher (1806 to 1873), a utilitarian and liberal
    Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character has abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigour, and moral courage which it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric, marks the chief danger of the time.

    ↗On Liberty (1859)gutenberg.org

    c. 1859

    All 18 korrents from this piecethis one is 14th

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