Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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