In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERThe wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average 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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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