The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
HERBERT SPENCER
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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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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