Philosopher Quotes

In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
Science is organized knowledge.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation of motion and integration of matter.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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