Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCEREducation has for its object the formation of character.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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Science is organized knowledge.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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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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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Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
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Marriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
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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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The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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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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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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