Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

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Insanity Burnout

Author

Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Source

The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table

Medium

Essay

Language

English

Time

1858 1850s 19th century

Occupation

Supreme Court Justice Judge Lawyer

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United States

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Original Citation

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. New England Magazine, 1831 and 1832.

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Holmes, Oliver Wendell. The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table. Dover Publications, 2015.

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We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavoring to stifle is a false opinion; and if we were sure, stifling it would be an evil still.

John Stuart Mill

On Liberty

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Suppression of speech Freedom of speech and expression

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John Stuart Mill
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On Liberty
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Essay
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Philosophical literature Political literature
Language
English
Time
1859 1850s 19th century
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Mill, John Stuart. On Liberty. J.W. Parker and Son, 1859, ch. 2.

Current Citation

Mill, John Stuart. "On Liberty." On Liberty, Utilitarianism and Other Essays. Edited by Mark Philp and Frederick Rosen. Oxford University Press, 2015, ch. 2.