People Quotes by Herbert Spencer

8 People quotes by Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer’s eight brief statements on people distill his philosophical outlook into concise observations. Though limited, the selection offers a quick glimpse of his analytical view of society.

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What, then, do they want a government for? Not to regulate commerce; not to educate the people; not to teach religion, not…

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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.

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And yet, strange to say, now that this truth is recognized by most cultivated people — now that the beneficent working of…

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And yet, strange to say, now that the truth [of natural selection] is recognized by most cultivated people...now more than ever, in…

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Agnostics are people who, like myself, confess themselves to be hopelessly ignorant concerning a variety of matters, about which metaphysicians and theologians,…

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If men use their liberty in such a way as to surrender their liberty, are they thereafter any the less slaves? If…

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For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the…

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People ... become so preoccupied with the means by which an end is achieved, as eventually to mistake it for the end.…

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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

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No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

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Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

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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…

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

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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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