Reading is seeing by proxy.
This survival of the fittest implies multiplication of the fittest.
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good nature and mirthfulness. Irritability comes from errors in food, bad air, too little sleep, a necessity for change of scene and surroundings; from confinement in close rooms, and lack of sunshine.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians, both orthodox and heterodox, dogmatize with the utmost confidence.
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Every pleasure raises the tide of life; every pain lowers the tide of life.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Morality knows nothing of geographical boundaries, or distinctions of race.
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, and cultivate the tastes, to encourage this feeling and repress that, so as finally to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature, this is alike the aim of parent and teacher.
Is it stupidity or is it moral cowardice which leads men to continue professing a creed that makes self-sacrifice a cardinal principle, while they urge the sacrificing of others, even to the death, when they trespass against us? Is it blindness, or is it an insance inconsistency, which makes them regard as most admirable the bearing of evil for the benefit of others, while they lavish admiration on those who, out of revenge, inflict great evils in return for small ones suffered? Surely our barbarian code of right needs revision, and our barbarian standard of honour should be somewhat changed.
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?
The poverty of the incapable, the distresses that come upon the imprudent, the starvation of the idle, and those shoulderings aside of the weak by the strong, which leave so many "in shallows and in miseries," are the decrees of a large, far-seeing benevolence.
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process, is small compared with the cruelty of a God who condemns men to tortures which are eternal.
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.
No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is free to drop connection with the state-to relinquish its protection, and to refuse paying toward its support.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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