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.
HERBERT SPENCEROpinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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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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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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