Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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