Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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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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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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