ThursdaySep 11, 2025
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
The behaviour of men to the lower animals, and their behaviour to each other, bear a constant relationship.
It was remarked to me by the late Mr. Charles Roupell ... that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
Time: That which man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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.'
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
Rightness expresses of actions, what straightness does of lines; and there can no more be two kinds of right action than there can be two kinds of straight lines.
Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So surely must the things we call evil and immorality disappear; so surely must man become perfect.
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation of men's actions in all their details, and such an enormous drafting away of the products of their actions to maintain the regulating organization, that life was fast becoming impracticable. And if we ask what then made, and now makes, this error possible, we find it to be the political superstition that governmental power is subject to no restraints.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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.
Government is essentially immoral.
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.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
To play billiards well is a sign of an ill-spent youth.
Life is the continuous adjustment of external relations.
It was remarked to me...that to play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
A jury is a group of twelve people of average ignorance.
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.
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Science is organized knowledge.
The survival of the fittest.
Whatever foster militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
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