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.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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