Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 27, 1820 Death: December 8, 1903
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad..
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal..
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution..
The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they are though….
The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest gen….
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art..
Education has for its object the formation of character. To curb restive propensities, to awaken dormant sentiments, to strengthen the perceptions, a….
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior..
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out..
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..
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature..
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened by artificial aid, to ensure p….
No one can be perfectly happy till all are happy..
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying..
We have repeatedly observed that while any whole is evolving, there is always going on an evolution of the parts into which it divides itself; but we….
It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her eleva….
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered..
... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad, indeed, is it to see ho….
A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited..
There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance-that principle is contempt prio….
Education has for its object to develop the child into a man of well proportioned and harmonious nature-this is alike the aim of parent and teacher..