Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERCivilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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 jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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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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