Who indeed, after pulling off the coloured glasses of prejudice and thrusting out of sight his pet projects, can help seeing the folly of these endeavours to protect men against themselves? A sad population of imbeciles would our schemers fill the world with, could their plans last.
HERBERT SPENCERAn argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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Divine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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The fact disclosed by a survey of the past that majorities have been wrong must not blind us to the complementary fact that majorities have usually not been entirely wrong.
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Science is organized knowledge.
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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Love 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.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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People are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
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