Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
HERBERT SPENCERLove 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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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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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