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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.

Herbert Spencer

Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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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Color Glass Project Pull See
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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Confusion Greatness Himself Knowledge Man Order
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Advance Change Ideas Important Science
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Poetry Pursue Science Surround
Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Effect One Liner Production
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Expectation Happiness Object Pursue Source
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Bold Courage
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Death Live Moments Place
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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Arts Human Minister Music Oneself Position Rank Spirit
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Effect Fools Man Result World
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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Fact Majority Past Survey Wrong
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Funny Marriage Word
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
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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Existence Form Government Human Nature Present Requirement
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
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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End Life Love Wealth
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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Form Government Old Terror

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