When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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