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Freedom is the greatest of political goods. I do not say freedom is the greatest

The law of causality, I believe, like much that passes muster among philosophers

Organic life, we are told, has developed gradually from the protozoon to the philosopher

The scientific attitude of mind involves a sweeping away of all other desires

A life devoted to science is therefore a happy life, and its happiness is derived

A truer image of the world, I think, is obtained by picturing things as entering

the point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem

The best life is the one in which the creative impulses play the largest part

The basis of our government being the opinion of the people, the very first object

What a stupendous, what an incomprehensible machine is man! Who can endure toil

“Our liberty can never be safe but in the hands of the people themselves.” Thomas Jefferson

All the entertainment and talk of history is nothing almost but fighting and killing

And he who thinks that these two roots of almost all the injustice and contention

He will better comprehend the foundations and measures of decency and justice

“The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will begin to be one” John Locke

Of all the ways whereby children are to be instructed, and their manners formed

The foundations on which several duties are built, and the foundations of right

The necessity of believing without knowledge, nay often upon very slight grounds

False and doubtful positions, relied upon as unquestionable maxims

“He that uses his words loosely and unsteadily will either not be minded or not understood.

There cannot any one moral Rule be proposed, whereof a Man may not justly

Social action, like all action, may be oriented in four ways. It may be

Sociology... is a science concerning itself with the interpretive understanding of social action

The capacity for the accomplishment of religious virtuosos — the “intellectual sacrifice”