All Herbert Spencer Quotes
- Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit. Any
- How often misused words generate misleading thoughts. Generate
- A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance. Average
- Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman. Ceremony
- Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect. Determined
- Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance. Funny
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools. Aging
- A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it. Any
- Government is essentially immoral. Essentially
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances. Accounts
- The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality. Conscious
- We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one. Clearly
- An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature. Argument
- Every cause produces more than one effect. Cause
- Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom. Freedom
- Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity. Civilization
- Education has for its object the formation of character. Character
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. Action
- Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded. Entered
- We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced. All
- Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror. Finally
- What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man. Beast
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation… Accompanying
- The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type… Existence
- Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization. Barbarism