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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All socialism involves slavery.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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