The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
From Herbert Spencer
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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.
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
2 perspectives
1 perspectives