All Herbert Spencer Quotes
- Progress is not an accident, not a thing within human control, but a beneficent necessity ... due to the working of a universal law. So… Accident
- Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more… Acquired
- To play billiards well was a sign of an ill-spent youth Billiards
- If every man has freedom to do all that he wills, provided he infringes not the equal freedom of any other man, then he is… All
- The home is the most important factor in civilization, and that civilization is to be measured at different stages largely by the development in the… Civilization
- Though, probably, no competent geologist would contend that the European classification of strata is applicable to all other parts of the globe, yet most, if… All
- Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost. Anyone
- Feudalism, serfdom, slavery, all tyrannical institutions, are merely the most vigorous kind to rule, springing out of, and necessarily to, a bad state of man.… All
- Be it or be it not true that Man is shapen in iniquity and conceived in sin, it is unquestionably true that Government is begotten… Aggression
- The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad. All
- Even the absurdest report may in nearly every instance be traced to an actual occurrence; and had there been no such actual occurrence, this preposterous… Absence
- Without painting, sculpture, music, poetry, and the emotions produced by natural beauty of every kind, life would lose half its charm. Beauty
- The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out. Inside
- No phrase can convey the idea of surprise so vividly as opening the eyes and raising the eyebrows. A shrug of the shoulders would lose… Convey
- All socialism involves slavery. That which fundamentally distinguishes the slave is that he labours under coercion to satisfy anothers desires. All
- Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious. Impiety
- It is a commonly observed fact that the enslavement of women is invariably associated with a low type of social life, and that, conversely, her… Accompanies
- Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host. Aggression
- It becomes possible to admit that plainness may coexist with nobility of nature, and fine features with baseness; and yet to hold that mental and… Admit
- 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, therefore,… All
- Love is life's end, but never ending. Love is life's wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love's life's reward, rewarded in rewarding. End
- No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly… All
- All socialism involves slavery. All
- Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations. Adjustment
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources. Ardently