Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCEREvery cause produces more than one effect.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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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 great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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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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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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