Every cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCERThe wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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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