When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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