Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
“Crime is incurable, save by that gradual process of adaptation to the social state which humanity is undergoing. Crime is the continual… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
A stern discipline pervades all nature, which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — 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
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
Pervading all nature we may see at work a stern discipline , which is a little cruel that it may be very kind. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the… — 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
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
It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The "Creed of Christendom" is alien to my nature, both emotional and intellectual. — 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
The child takes most of his nature of the mother, besides speech, manners, and inclination. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Sundry manifestations of nature in men and women, are greatly perverted by existing social conventions upheld by both. There are feelings which,… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
With a higher moral nature will come a restriction on the multiplication of the inferior. — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
Mother, when your children are irritable, do not make them more so by scolding and fault-finding, but correct their irritability by good… — 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
