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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.
— Herbert Spencer
Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
— Herbert Spencer
So long as selfishness makes government needful at all, it must make every government corrupt, save one in which all men are represented.
— Herbert Spencer
Science is organised knowledge.
— 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
A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
— Herbert Spencer
Originally, ethics has no existence apart from religion, which holds it in solution.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Herbert Spencer
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Herbert Spencer
Education has for its object the formation of character.
— Herbert Spencer
Truth generally lies in the coordination of antagonistic opinions.
— 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
The saying that beauty is but skin deep, is but a skin-deep saying.
— Herbert Spencer
Every man is free to do that which he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man.
— Herbert Spencer
To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth
— Herbert Spencer
Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas ...
— Herbert Spencer
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination.
— Herbert Spencer
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual.
— Herbert Spencer
The presumption that any current opinion is not wholly false, gains in strength according to the number of its adherents.
— Herbert Spencer
In societies of low civilization, there is no money.
— Herbert Spencer
Every man may claim the fullest liberty to exercise his faculties compatible with the possession of like liberties by every other man.
— Herbert Spencer
Reading is seeing by proxy.
— Herbert Spencer
In the supremacy of self-control consists one of the perfections of the ideal man.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Herbert Spencer
Every cause produces more than one effect.
— Herbert Spencer
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
— Herbert Spencer
We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
— Herbert Spencer
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
— Herbert Spencer
Every unpunished delinquency has a family of delinquencies.
— Herbert Spencer
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity ... It is a part of nature.
— Herbert Spencer
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong.
— Herbert Spencer
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
— Herbert Spencer
There is no origin for the idea of an afterlife, save the conclusion which the savage draws from the notion suggested by dreams.
— Herbert Spencer
We too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally also, a soul of truth in things erroneous.
— Herbert Spencer
Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
— Herbert Spencer
Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.
— Herbert Spencer
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
— Herbert Spencer
When men hire themselves out to shoot other men to order, asking nothing about the justice of their cause, I don't care if they are shot themselves.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Herbert Spencer
Evil perpetually tends to disappear.
— Herbert Spencer
Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
— Herbert Spencer
It is the function of parents to see that their children habitually experience the true consequences of their conduct.
— Herbert Spencer
A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
— Herbert Spencer
To play billiards well is the sign of a misspent youth.
— Herbert Spencer
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
— Herbert Spencer
The universal basis of co-operation is the proportioning of benefits received to services rendered.
— Herbert Spencer
In assuming any office besides its essential one, the State begins to lose the power of fulfilling its essential 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
No philosopher's stone of a constitution can produce golden conduct from leaden instincts.
— Herbert Spencer
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
— Herbert Spencer
Liberty is not the right of one, but of all.
— Herbert Spencer
Science is organized knowledge.
— Herbert Spencer
Religion is the recognition that all things are manifestations of a Power which transcends our knowledge.
— Herbert Spencer
Of all the knowledge, that most worth having is knowledge about health! The first requisite of a good life is to be a healthy person.
— Herbert Spencer
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind.
— Herbert Spencer
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
— Herbert Spencer
Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
— Herbert Spencer
All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires.
— Herbert Spencer
Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
— Herbert Spencer
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
— Herbert Spencer
Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
— Herbert Spencer
It must be admitted that the conception of virtue cannot be separated from the conception of happiness-producing conduct.
— Herbert Spencer
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools.
— Herbert Spencer
Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.
— Herbert Spencer
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.
— Herbert Spencer
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
— Herbert Spencer
Equity knows no difference of sex. In its vocabulary the word man must be understood in a generic, and not in a specific sense.
— Herbert Spencer
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
— Herbert Spencer
The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
— Herbert Spencer
The essential trait in the moral consciousness, is the control of some feeling or feelings by some other feeling or feelings.
— Herbert Spencer
Music ministers to human welfare more than any other art.
— Herbert Spencer
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
— Herbert Spencer
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
— Herbert Spencer
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute.
— Peter Singer
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior.
— Herbert Spencer
The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
— Herbert Spencer
However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
— Herbert Spencer
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
— Herbert Spencer
The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.
— Herbert Spencer
The defects of the children mirror the defects of the parents.
— Herbert Spencer
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
— Herbert Spencer
The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
— Herbert Spencer
Education is preparation to live completely.
— Herbert Spencer
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.
— Herbert Spencer