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Inspirational Quotes by Herbert Spencer
- Society exists for the benefit of its members - not the members for the benefit of society.
- Marriage: A word which should be pronounced "mirage".
- Life is not for learning nor is life for working, but learning and working are for life.
- Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.
- If they are sufficiently complete to live, they do live, and it is well they should live. If they are not sufficiently complete to live,…
- Education is preparation to live completely.
- Reading is seeing by proxy.
- Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
- The greatest of all infidelities is the fear that the truth will be bad.
- The tyrant is nothing but a slave turned inside out.
- Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
- Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
- 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…
- Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
- Government is essentially immoral.
- We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
- Every cause produces more than one effect.
- Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
- The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
- We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
- Whatever fosters militarism makes for barbarism; whatever fosters peace makes for civilization.
- Science is organized knowledge.
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