Best Quotes by Herbert Spencer (Top 10)
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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This 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 favoured races in the struggle for life.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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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.
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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.
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Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Time is that which a man is always trying to kill, but which ends in killing him.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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There is a principle which is a bar against all information, which is proof against all arguments and which cannot fail to keep a man in everlasting ignorance - that principle is contempt prior to investigation
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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.
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A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind
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Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
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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, far-seeing benevolence.
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