Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
HERBERT SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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