We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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