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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.

Herbert Spencer

Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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Animal Lower Man Relationship
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Clear Freedom Oneself Tax
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Civilization Homogenious Progress
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
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Argument Communism Fatal Nature Ourselves Theory
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word
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
Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Character Education Formation Object
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Ignorance Live Ourselves Universe
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

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