Herbert Spencer Quotes
All Socialism involves slavery.
The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical mora...
Show MoreMarriage: A word which should be pronounced 'mirage'.
Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the ge...
Show MoreThe Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires...
Show MoreOld forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of ...
Show MoreTime is that which man is always trying to kill but which ends in killing him.
They who employ force by proxy are as much responsible for that force as though they employed it the...
Show MoreMusic must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, minist...
Show MoreThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
As a corollary to the proposition that all institutions must be subordinated to the law of equal fre...
Show MoreIf a single cell, under appropriate conditions, becomes a man in the space of a few years, there can...
Show MoreWe too often forget that not only is there 'a soul of goodness in things evil,' but very generally a...
Show MoreEvolution is an integration of matter and concomitant dissipation of motion during which the matter ...
Show MoreNo man is equal to his book. All the best products of his mental activity go into his book, where th...
Show MorePeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
All socialism involves slavery.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment t...
Show MoreThe wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
Government is essentially immoral.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they a...
Show MoreScience is organized knowledge.
