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.
HERBERT SPENCERThe 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.
HERBERT SPENCERVolumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCERCivilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
HERBERT SPENCERThe 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.
HERBERT SPENCERThe ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly, is to fill the world with fools.
HERBERT SPENCERHero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
HERBERT SPENCERPeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERScience is organized knowledge.
HERBERT SPENCERBe bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCERNo 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.
HERBERT SPENCEROur lives are universally shortened by our ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: a ceremony in which rings are put on the finger of the lady and through the nose of the gentleman.
HERBERT SPENCERHow often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
HERBERT SPENCEREvery cause produces more than one effect.
HERBERT SPENCERLife is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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