Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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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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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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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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