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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.

Herbert Spencer

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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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 behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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 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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