Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERWho 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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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