Be bold, be bold, and everywhere be bold.
HERBERT SPENCERWho 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.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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Marriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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Government is essentially immoral.
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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 wise man must remember that while he is a descendant of the past, he is a parent of the future.
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In science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
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Education has for its object the formation of character.
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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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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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All socialism involves slavery.
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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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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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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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How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.
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