John Stuart Mill - The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the am...

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The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so few now dare to be eccentric marks the chief danger of the time.

John Stuart Mill

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Das Ausmaß der Exzentrizität in einer Gesellschaft war im Allgemeinen proportional zu der Menge an Genialität, geistiger Kraft und dem moralischen Mut, die sie enthielt. Daß so wenige es wagen, exzentrisch zu sein, kennzeichnet die Hauptgefahr der Zeit.

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