Friday, May 16, 2025

A little bit of Zen (42)

An early black-and-white portrait photograph of the great 19th century philosopher, John Stuart Mill
 

"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."


John Stuart Mill (1806-1873)


But NOTE: to be 'eccentric' means to be an unorthodox and individualistic thinker... not to be a mad and self-destructive one. We generally see far more of the latter in FPL, alas.

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