Love Quotes by Herbert Spencer

9 Love quotes by Herbert Spencer

Herbert Spencer’s thoughts on love are distilled into nine concise lines, each reflecting his analytical style. This brief set offers a quick snapshot of his perspective on this universal feeling.

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Education is preparation to live completely.

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Reading is seeing by proxy.

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The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.

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Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

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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.

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That feelings of love and hate make rational judgments impossible in public affairs, as in private affairs, we can clearly enough see…

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If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently…

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The present relationship existing between husband and wife, where one claims a command over the actions of the other, is nothing more…

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If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened…

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Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

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When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

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The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…

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The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity…

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I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

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Surely in much talk there cannot choose but be much vanity. Loquacity is the fistula of the mind,--ever-running and almost incurable, let every man,…

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No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be…

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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.

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It cannot but happen?that those will survive whose functions happen to be most nearly in equilibrium with the modified aggregate of external forces? This…

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“Before he can remake his society, his society must make him.”

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