The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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