How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCERMusic 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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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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