Herbert Spencer Quotes
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During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.
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Organs, faculties, powers, capacities, or whatever else we call them; grow by use and diminish from disuse, it is inferred that they will continue to…
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When you take comprehensive, then we're dealing with certain issues like full citizenship ... And whatever else we disagree on, I think we would agree…
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
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A nation's institutions and beliefs are determined by it's character.
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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 of…
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The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
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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 people by a…
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A man's liberties are none the less aggressed upon because those who coerce him do so in the belief that he will be benefited.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
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However insignificant the minority, and however trifling the proposed trespass against their rights, no such trespass is permissible.
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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 of…
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If there be an order in which the human race has mastered its various kinds of knowledge, there will arise in every child an aptitude…
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Only when Genius is married to Science can the highest results be produced.
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So far from science being irreligious, as many think, it is the neglect of science that is irreligious-it is the refusal to study the surrounding…
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The chief arguments that are urged against an established religion, may be used with equal force against an established charity. The dissenter submits, that no…
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The most important attribute of man as a moral being is the faculty of self-control.
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A function to each organ, and each organ to its own function, is the law of all organization.
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