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Herbert Spencer [1820-1903] English

Herbert Spencer was an English philosopher, biologist, anthropologist, sociologist, and prominent classical liberal political theorist of the Victorian era.

Government, Knowledge, Marriage, Education, Freedom, Future, Great, Health, Legal, Men, Music, Nature, Poetry, Science, Society

Quote	Tags	Rank
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.	Education, Great, Knowledge	101
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.		102
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.	Knowledge	103
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.	Legal, Men	104
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.	Government	105
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.	Music	106
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.	Society	107
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.	Health	108
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.		109
The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.		110
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.	Marriage	111
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.	Future	112
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.	Government, Nature	113
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.	Freedom	114
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.		115
Science is organized knowledge.	Knowledge, Science	116
All socialism involves slavery.	Government	117
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.		118
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.		119
Every cause produces more than one effect.		120
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.		121
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.		122
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.		123
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.		124
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.		125
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.		126
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.		201
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.		202
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.		203
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.		204
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.		205
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.		206
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.	Marriage	207
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.	Poetry	208
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.		209
Government is essentially immoral.	Government	210
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.		211
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.		212
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.		213
Education has for its object the formation of character.		214

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