Education has for its object the formation of character.
HERBERT SPENCERThe 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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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