A jury is composed of twelve men of average ignorance.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
More Herbert Spencer Quotes
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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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Life is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
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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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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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Civilization is a progress from an indefinite, incoherent homogeneity toward a definite, coherent heterogeneity.
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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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Hero-worship is strongest where there is least regard for human freedom.
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Opinion is ultimately determined by the feelings, and not by the intellect.
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Those who have never entered upon scientific pursuits know not a tithe of the poetry by which they are surrounded.
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Every cause produces more than one effect.
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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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Society exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
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Volumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
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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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What a cage is to the wild beast, law is to the selfish man.
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