If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves If people by a plebiscite elect a man despot over them, do they remain free because the despotism was of their own making
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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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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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell . . . that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
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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 ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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A ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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 h...
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Time: that which man is always trying to kill, ends in killing him.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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