Poetry Quotes by Herbert Spencer

8 Poetry quotes by Herbert Spencer

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Herbert Spencer is typically associated with philosophy, yet these eight poems translate his abstract thoughts into a more intimate rhythm. The collection offers a rare glimpse of his ideas set to meter.

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“[L]et us not overlook the further great fact, that not only does science underlie sculpture, painting, music, poetry, but that science is…

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Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

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Thus poetry, regarded as a vehicle of thought, is especially impressive partly because it obeys all the laws of effective speech, and…

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Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm.

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The white light of truth, in traversing the many sided transparent soul of the poet, is refracted into iris-hued poetry.

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The ideal form for a poem, essay, or fiction, is that which the ideal writer would evolve spontaneously. One in whom the…

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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.

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... those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded... Sad,…

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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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