“For I now saw, or thought I saw, what I had always before received with incredulity -- that the habit of analysis has a tendency to wear away the feelings: as indeed it has, when no other mental habit is cultivated, and the analysing spirit remains without its natural complements and correctives.”

— John Stuart Mill , book Autobiography

Source: https://archive.org/details/autobiography01mill/page/137/mode/1up p. 137

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British philosopher and political economist 1806–1873

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