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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.

Herbert Spencer

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
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Divine Oneself Right
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
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
Science is organized knowledge.
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Knowledge Organization Science
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
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
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Discrimination Prejudice
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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Action Education Goal Greatness Knowledge
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
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Cage Law Man Selfish
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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Future Man Parents Past Remember Wisdom
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Average Compose Ignorance Jury Man
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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Animal Beginning Goodness People See Success
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
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Benefit Existence Member Society
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
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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Freedom Happiness Oneself Perfection
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
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Freedom Human Strong Worship
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Health Moral Preservation Responsibility
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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Fingers Man Marriage Relationship Ring
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Determination Intellectual Opinion
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
Government is essentially immoral.
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Essential Government Immoral One Liner
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Pious Volume Writing
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Generate Thinking Word

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