“equally eagerly from the nineteenth-century polymath Herbert Spencer, the first truly global thinker – who, after reading Darwin, coined the term ‘survival… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third… — Gordon Stein Copy Share Image
“Darwinism met with such overwhelming success because it provided, on the basis of inheritance, the ideological weapons for race and well as… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
“[Herbert Spencer] was ready in those days to give everything a trial; he even thought of migrating to New Zealand, forgetting that… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or 'unknowable' by Herbert Spencer, 'will' by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some… — Sivananda Copy Share Image
“If they’re beautiful I don’t much mind if they’re not true. It’s asking a great deal that things should appeal to your… — William Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
I have called this principle, by which each slight variation, if useful, is preserved, by the term Natural Selection, in order to… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In the post-enlightenment Europe of the 19th century the highest authority was no longer the Church. Instead it was science. Thus was… — Jonathan Sacks Copy Share Image
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Herbert Spencer is little read now. Philosophers do not regard him as a major thinker. Social Darwinism has long been in disrepute. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
“[James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual… — Nancy MacLean Copy Share Image
“In the future I see open fields for more important researches. Psychology will be securely based on the foundation already laid by… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
'The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools!'Herbert Spencer — Andrew Guzaldo Copy Share Image
It was Herbert Spencer, not Charles Darwin, who coined the phrase Survival of the Fittest. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
In his Philosophy of Style, Herbert Spencer gives two sentences to illustrate how the vague and general can be turned into the… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
“QUOTES & SAYINGS OF RYAN MORAN- THE WORLD'S MOST POWERFUL MAN Favorite Sayings of Ryan Moran: The World's Most Powerful Man “Sometimes… — Ira Teller Copy Share Image
“The true act of blasphemy is achieved more by violating certain standards of dress than by political dissent, as Herbert Spencer proclaimed.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The land monopoly always starts with conquest. Shot and shell are the coins of purchase, as Herbert Spencer said. Except by force… — Robert Anton Wilson Copy Share Image