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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.

Herbert Spencer

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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Death Live Moments Place
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
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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Form Government Old Terror

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