We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
HERBERT SPENCEREvery cause produces more than one effect.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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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.
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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 happy till all are happy.
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The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
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When a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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