Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERWhen a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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 do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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