Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance |
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 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 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, farseeing be |
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 |
The Survival of the Fittest |
The 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 favored races in the struggle for life." |
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. |
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future. |