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From Quotes by Herbert Spencer
- 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…
- Mental power cannot be got from ill-fed brains.
- The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
- 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…
- Anyone who studies the state of things which preceded the French Revolution will see that the tremendous catastrophe came about from so excessive a regulation…
- Let men learn that a legislature is not 'our God upon earth,' though, by the authority they ascribe to it, and the things they expect…
- 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…
- 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.…
- Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
- The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
- A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
- Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
- The more specific idea of Evolution now reached is - a change from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity to a definite, coherent heterogeneity, accompanying the dissipation…
- The ultimate effect of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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