Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
There can be little question that good composition is far less dependent upon acquaintance with its laws, than upon practice and natural… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
It is a mistake to assume that government must necessarily last forever. The institution marks a certain stage of civilization-is natural to… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
If men were wise they would see that the affection that God has implanted in us is amply sufficient, when not weakened… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Under the natural course of things each citizen tends towards his fittest function. Those who are competent to the kind of work… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
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