A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
Herbert Spencer
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
Herbert Spencer
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Herbert Spencer
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
Herbert Spencer
Government is essentially immoral.
Herbert Spencer
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Herbert Spencer
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage";
Herbert Spencer
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge.
Herbert Spencer
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
Herbert Spencer
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.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
Herbert Spencer
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Herbert Spencer
There is one principle that can keep a man in everlasting ignorance. That is contempt prior to investigation.
Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Herbert Spencer
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
Herbert Spencer
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Type:
Philosopher
Date of Birth:
1820-04-27
Year of Death:
1903
Nationality:
English |
