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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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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
Herbert Spencer
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Lusts are like agues; the fit is not always on, and yet the man is not rid of his disease; and some men's lusts, like some agues, have not such quick returns as others.
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Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
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The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the home.
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How truly language must be regarded as a hindrance to thought, though the necessary instrument of it, we shall clearly perceive on remembering the comparative force with which simple ideas are communicated by signs. To say, "Leave the room," is less expressive than to point to the door. Place a finger on the lips is more forcible than whispering, "Do not speak." A beck of the hand is better than, "Come here." No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose much by translation into words.
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Education is preparation to live completely.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
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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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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to human welfare.
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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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Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of the ideal man.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential one.
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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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No place, no company, no age, no person is temptation-free; let no man boast that he was never tempted, let him not be high-minded, but fear, for he may be surprised in that very instant wherein he boasteth that he was never tempted at all.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live, they die, and it is best they should die.
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This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.
Herbert Spencer