We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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