Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it themselves.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Government is essentially immoral.
All Socialism involves slavery.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
Science is organized knowledge.
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
Time is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.
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 o...
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.