When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCERLife is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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In 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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