Science is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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The behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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.
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