How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Who 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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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