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One 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…
- The existence of a first cause of the universe is a necessity of thought ... Amid the mysteries which become more mysterious the more they…
- 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…
- Religion has been compelled by science to give up one after another of its dogmas. . . .
- For what is meant by saying that a government ought to educate the people? Why should they be educated? What is the education for? Clearly,…
- Aggression which is flagitious when committed by one, is not sanctioned when committed by a host.
- 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,…
- 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…
- Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts - as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
- In science the important thing is to modify and change one's ideas as science advances.
- We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
- 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.
- Every cause produces more than one effect.
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