Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
HERBERT SPENCERWho 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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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