Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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