The wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
HERBERT SPENCERThe 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.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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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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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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