In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERCivilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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