Evil Quote by Herbert Spencer

During human progress, every science is evolved out of its corresponding art.

— Herbert Spencer

No physiologist who calmly considers the question in connection with the general truths of his science, can long resist the conviction that different parts…

— Herbert Spencer

Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much…

— Herbert Spencer

Conservatism defends those coercive arrangements which a still-lingering savageness makes requisite. Radicalism endeavours to realize a state more in harmony with the character of…

— Herbert Spencer

Absolute morality is the regulation of conduct in such a way that pain shall not be inflicted.

— Herbert Spencer

When a man's knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.

— Herbert Spencer

The cruelty of a Fijian god, who, represented as devouring the souls of the dead, may be supposed to inflict torture during the process,…

— Herbert Spencer

The liberty the citizen enjoys is to be measured not by governmental machinery he lives under, whether representative or other, but by the paucity…

— Herbert Spencer

I had a great dislike to the annoyances entailed by baggage; and it was always with some feeling of elation that I cut myself…

— Herbert Spencer

Progress, therefore, is not an accident, but a necessity…It is a part of nature.

— Herbert Spencer

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,…

— Herbert Spencer

No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be…

— Herbert Spencer