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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

~Herbert Spencer

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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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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.

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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.

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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.

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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.

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In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.

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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 27th, 1820

Died: December 8th, 1903

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