Science is organized knowledge.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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