Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCERAn argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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The great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
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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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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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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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Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained; most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.
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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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Our lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
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We all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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