Words matter. These are the best Herbert Spencer Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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.
A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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.
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.
Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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.
Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
Education has for its object the formation of character.
Government is essentially immoral.
Science is organized knowledge.
Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
All socialism involves slavery.
The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
