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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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