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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.

Herbert Spencer

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
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
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
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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End Life Love Wealth
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
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

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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