A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCEREducation has for its object the formation of character.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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