The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERWhen a man’s knowledge is not in order, the more of it he has the greater will be his confusion.
HERBERT SPENCERCivilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
HERBERT SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERHow often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCEROur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERLove is life’s end, but never ending. Love is life’s wealth, never spent, but ever spending. Love’s life’s reward, rewarded in rewarding.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERScience is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCERVolumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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