Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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The 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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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