Autobiography by John Stuart Mill ↑

The internal culture of the individual

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The other important change which my opinions at this time underwent, was that I, for the first time, gave its proper place, among the prime necessities of human well-being, to the internal culture of the individual. I ceased to attach almost exclusive importance to the ordering of outward circumstances, and the training of the human being for speculation and for action.

John Stuart Mill, 1873, from the book Autobiography by John Stuart Mill