We do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERA jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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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 preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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