In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Love is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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