Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
HERBERT SPENCERThose who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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