Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERLife is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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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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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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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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