Music must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCERMusic must take rank as the highest of the fine arts – as the one which, more than any other, ministers to the human spirit.
HERBERT SPENCERPeople are beginning to see that the first requisite to success in life is to be a good animal.
HERBERT SPENCERIn science the important thing is to modify and change one’s ideas as science advances.
HERBERT SPENCERSociety exists for the benefit of its members, not the members for the benefit of society.
HERBERT SPENCERLife is the continuous adjustment of internal relations to external relations.
HERBERT SPENCERDivine right of kings means the divine right of anyone who can get uppermost.
HERBERT SPENCERThe preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.
HERBERT SPENCEROld forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.
HERBERT SPENCERVolumes might be written upon the impiety of the pious.
HERBERT SPENCERMarriage: A word which should be pronounced ‘mirage’.
HERBERT SPENCERThe behavior of men to the lower animals, and their behavior to each other, bear a constant relationship.
HERBERT SPENCERA living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.
HERBERT SPENCERThe great aim of education is not knowledge but action.
HERBERT SPENCERWe do not commonly see in a tax a diminution of freedom, and yet it clearly is one.
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 SPENCERWe all decry prejudice, yet are all prejudiced.
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